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Sample the main body of a high quality team written report

Introduction

When people from varying cultural beliefs and background come together to work and

communicate, they are involved in intercultural communication Individuals who deal with

people from other cultures should learn how to improve their skills and performance through

improving their intercultural communication skills. This helps them to gain intercultural

understanding and therefore achieve their goals. In addition, intercultural communication is

important in the business world when meeting with people from other cultures and taking many

important decisions. The main purpose of this report is to show how intercultural communication

is important to conclude successful business deals and to point out that working with foreign

countries is not like working in your own country.

Needs and Benefits

This report will focus on the problem of miscommunication between Canadians and Chinese

through the Canwall Case Study (Beamer & Varner, 1995). During intercultural negotiations like

this, people need to pay close attention to different culture values. It is important to point out

these issues of intercultural awareness because this can help solve the problems of

misunderstanding. This will benefit both cultures in the case because they will be able to be more

successful and know more about other cultures and beliefs.

Scope

In this report, we will compare the Canadian and Chinese culture with attention to high/low

context and the cultural difference in how people view the concept of time (Barrett, 2008). These

are the principles of intercultural communication theory that we thought were most important in

this case and seemed to cause the problems of miscommunication. Instead, we decided not to

focus on other aspects of cultural difference, such as power distance and collectivism vs.

individualism (Hofstede, 1997) because we did not identify those problems in the Canwall Case.

Method

We used two methods to gather the information and to analyze the case. Firstly, we read the case

and searched for behaviors that are related to each culture (China and Canada) in relation to high

vs. low context and the importance people give to time. We prepared a table to classify the

behaviors of the Chinese and the Canadians according to the two aspects of culture as a way to

help us understand them better. Then, we discussed the mistakes that each one made and we

thought how they can avoid or correct them. We also used Internet to read some articles about

the cultures of Canada and China.

Findings of the Analysis

In this project we found that the Chinese showed typical behaviors of a high context culture.

They liked to work in a group and build relationships. They also needed more time than one

meeting to discuss details and make decisions for their project. In addition, they did not want to

have a strict time for payment However, the Canadians showed clearly that they are a low

context culture. They did not care about meeting a lot of people to build relationships. They

wanted to do the business deal quickly and not waste time with details. They also did not want to

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Sample the main body of a high quality team written report Introduction When people from varying cultural beliefs and background come together to work and communicate, they are involved in intercultural communication Individuals who deal with people from other cultures should learn how to improve their skills and performance through improving their intercultural communication skills. This helps them to gain intercultural understanding and therefore achieve their goals. In addition, intercultural communication is important in the business world when meeting with people from other cultures and t ...
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