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Week 4 International Management - Managing Across Cultures
This document provides information for an international management course. It outlines the topics to be covered in Week 4, which focus on cross-cultural communication. It announces an upcoming assignment on cross-cultural communication that is worth 40% and is due in Week 6. It also previews the lecture topics for Week 4, which will cover cultural convergence and divergence, national context, and managerial predispositions for global management.
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Week 4 International Management - Managing Across Cultures
- 1. MGF3681: International Management Week 4: Cross Cultural Communication www.monash.edu.au
- 2. Get excited for…… KendallHerbert – PhD Student (B.Bus (Hons)) – Teaches IB – Nathan thinks she is awesome so you should too www.monash.edu.au 2
- 3. Assignment 1 • Cross-Cultural Communication • Due week 6 on the Friday 5pm - Moodle • Worth 40% • 2,500 – 3,000 words • 15 Journal Articles • Harvard Referencing • THIS WEEK MAY BE IMPORTANT….. www.monash.edu.au 3
- 4. Week 3 Lecture (yepNathan made a mistake last week….) • Explain how culture affects the communication process. In your answer you should identify each step of the communication process and the impact of culture on each step. • Using Hall (1976), as reference, analyse the difference between explicit and implicit communication. • Identify and describe three (3) verbal communication styles. • What is non-verbal communication and describe four (4) types of non-verbal communication. • How does one effectively communication across cultures? www.monash.edu.au 4
- 5. Welcome back Tonga! •In groups choose a country (even no of groups) • What are their ‘quirks’ in cross cultural communication – Verbal and Non Verbal styles > High and Low Context > Silence > Communication style (elaborate, succinct etc) > Chronemics (relationship to time) > Oculesics (eye contact) > Proxemics (interpersonal space) www.monash.edu.au 5
- 6. Welcome back Tonga! •Now you have a business deal to do • You are two universities looking to create a strategic partnership • How you do this deal is up to your culture • Nathan is all for different languages and interpreters! www.monash.edu.au 6
- 7. Moshi Moshi McFarlin andSweeney, International Management page 219 www.monash.edu.au 7
- 8. Week 4 Lecture (seethe mistake now….) • Explain the terms cultural convergence and cultural divergence? Do you think cultures are becoming increasingly similar? If so, why? If not, why not? • Define the term national context. Provide examples of social institutions to support your answer. • Social institutions can influence organisations through coercive, mimetic, and normative isomorphism. Define these concepts, and provide examples to demonstrate how they work. • When managing globally, what are the four (4) key types of managerial predispositions that international management can utilise? www.monash.edu.au 8