GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: High-Context And Low-Context Cultures, Spoken Language, Business Communication

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

Document Summary

Shared set of beliefs, values, and paterns of behavior common to a group of people. The two building blocks of cultural awareness are: reasonable sensiivity. Be cauious of what someone of diferent culture takes ofensive or as a joke: self-awareness. Be able to cope with the culture of another naion. Spoken language: low context culture: most communicaion takes place through verbal communicaion, high context culture: most communicaion takes place through nonverbal and situaional cues in addiion to the writen or spoken word. Interpersonal space: quesion: arabs and lain americans prefer closer interpersonal space while. Time orientaion: polychronic culture: time is used to accomplish many diferent things at once. Example: talking about business while talking about family: monochronic culture: people tend to do one thing at a ime. Global managers: should be comfortable with cultural diversity, should be quick to ind opportuniies in unfamiliar seings.