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textbook; the Week 4 Weekly Lecture; and the articles Non-Verbal Communication in Intercultural Business Negotiations and How the Diversity of Values Matters in Intercultural Communication.
Your boss wants to send out a brief company email welcoming employees who recently transferred from the Hong Kong branch to your department. These employees, all of whom are Hong Kong natives, speak English, but your boss asks you to review his message for clarity. Using a minimum of one scholarly and/or credible source from the library, what would you suggest your boss change in the following email message and why? Is this message audience centered? Why or why not? How would you redraft this message for clarity?
“I wanted to welcome you ASAP to our little family here in the States. It’s high time we shook hands in person and not just across the sea. I’m pleased as punch about getting to know you all, and I for one will do my level best to sell you on America.”

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Message Analysis: Adapting to Different Cultures
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MESSAGE ANALYSIS: ADAPTING TO DIFFERENT CULTURES
Message Analysis: Adapting to different cultures
There are several changes the boss should make in the mail message. The boss should avoid
the use of abbreviations. In the mail message, the initials “ASAP” has been used. The audience
may fail to understand what the acronym stands for. Mo...
