GMS 200 Lecture 4: GMS CLASS 4 notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Horatio Morgan

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Shared set of beliefs, values, and paterns of behaviours common to a group of people. Low context culture: most communicaion takes place via the spoken or writen word. High context culture: most communicaion takes place through nonverbal and situaional cues in addiion to the writen or spoken word. Arabs and lain americans then to prefer closer interpersonal space when communicaion whereas americans prefer wider interpersonal space. Polychronic (muli-tasking) culture- ime used to accomplish many diferent things at once. Monochromic culture people tend to do one thing at a ime. Quick to ind opportuniies in unfamiliar seings. Time orientaion was later added as a ith dimension in a study of chinese managers in.