This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,studen... more This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,students. For example, one activity about increasing global interdependence involves an analysis by students of their community to determine the extent to which it is related to the activities of foreign people and foreign-made Products. Objectives and procedures are given for each activity. Charts, discussion topics, and masters for student handouts accompany some of.the activities. Also included in the description of some of the activities are sources-materials, films, and books-related to the topic for theteachers reference. The activities are:versatile and can be used at any greille level. The handbook concludes with ideas for teacher-developed activities. (Author/ND) * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.
This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,studen... more This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,students. For example, one activity about increasing global interdependence involves an analysis by students of their community to determine the extent to which it is related to the activities of foreign people and foreign-made Products. Objectives and procedures are given for each activity. Charts, discussion topics, and masters for student handouts accompany some of.the activities. Also included in the description of some of the activities are sources-materials, films, and books-related to the topic for theteachers reference. The activities are:versatile and can be used at any greille level. The handbook concludes with ideas for teacher-developed activities. (Author/ND) * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.
Meeting at the Crossroads: Bringing Together Scholarship Across Disciplinary and Geographic Bound... more Meeting at the Crossroads: Bringing Together Scholarship Across Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries The Global Advances in Business Communication Journal attempts to be a crossroads in many ways. In its emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship, the journal stands at the intersection of global business studies and global communication studies. This is reflected in the diversity of authors and articles in our first two issues that brought together authors and articles from a broad range of business and communication disciplines including Management, Marketing, Foreign Language for Business Purposes, Information Systems, and Business Ethics. This continues to be the case in the current issue, as our authors here are in the fields of Management, Business Communication and Business Administration. Likewise, in geographic scope, the GABC Journal remains a crossroads in both authorship and subject matter that we bring together perspectives from Europe, the Americas and Asia. The first article in our first issue served as a sort of metaphor for this as we brought together perspectives in the panel discussion from experts in the field from Belgium,
One of the most important areas for business educators to address in preparing their students to ... more One of the most important areas for business educators to address in preparing their students to compete effectively in world markets is cross-cultural negotiating and conflict management. To do so, teachers must prepare students to understand the markets into which they enter as managers. The objective is not to learn a great deal about one culture or market, or to divide the world into foreign and domestic markets, but to promote a cross-cultural perspective on the global economy by training students to observe cultures and ask the right questions. An international business communication course offered at Eastern Michigan University takes a two-part approach to teaching conflict management and negotiation. In the first part, students are taught the seven factors most likely to change in a business setting across cultures: language, environment and technology, social organization, contexting, authority conception, nonverbal communication and behavior, and temporal conception. In the second part, students are taught to apply those factors to a five-step model for conflict management. While the approach is designed for business training, the concept underlying it can be applied to many disciplines in which cross-cultural interaction is a factor. (MSE)
As awareness of the need for ethical business behavior increases, businesspeople must address the... more As awareness of the need for ethical business behavior increases, businesspeople must address the issue of an ethical standard acceptable for use in international business or, in individual situations, which country's ethical standards will be respected. Ethical absolutes cannot be determined without cultural bias. Legalistic, religious, and situational frameworks all reflect existing prejudices and values. Legalistic ethics occur most commonly in low-context cultures that place great value on the written word. High-context cultures tend to favor a situational approach to ethics. Religious ethics are determined by the individual religion to which one adheres. In each of these cases, culture divides the ground for a universal ethical standard. In international business, the question arises: at what point should one reject the norms and values of one's own culture to accommodate those of another? The most practical approach to the international businessman is ethical relativity, a willingness to modify one's own ethical views to communicate effectively across cultures. However, ethical relativism in international business does not address the situation in which a society condemns people based on an immutable characteristic such as gender or race. Businesspeople should be encouraged to accept and work with cultural differences but adhere to individual ethics.
NOTE 6p.; In: Proceedings of the Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business... more NOTE 6p.; In: Proceedings of the Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business and the Professions (4th, Dearborn, MI, May 2-4, 1985); see FL 015 835.
A study compared and contrasted the use of openings, summational-closings, and closures in Italia... more A study compared and contrasted the use of openings, summational-closings, and closures in Italian and U.S. Jyusiness letters-to examine the role of culture in international business communication. It is argued that the Italian business letter should be studied in a functional intra -cultural perspective where its meaning creates and maintains social reality. To support this proposition, cultural idioms and genre markers in letter openings and closings are identified as requiring explicit understanding by students of international commerce and by students of Italian who are studying the genre. Three types of Italian business letters are reviewed and classified, and the results are discussed. Analysis of U.E. letters reveals them to be far more formulaic and consistent by comparison, resulting in a completely opposite tonal quality. Additional research on "live file" Italian letters and on Italian-AMerican intercultural business correspondence is recommended. (MSE)
This keynote address examines the issue of language choice as a factor in intercultural business ... more This keynote address examines the issue of language choice as a factor in intercultural business communication. To this end, the presentation raises three main considerations. First, the international business person must consider the political and cultural implications of language selection. Such issues revolve around official languages, non- official and minority languages and attitudes toward a lingua franca (e.g., English, French, and Chinese.). Second, one needs to consider the linguistic accommodation within a lingua franca. Using the example of English, one finds that differences exist among cultures in their attitudes toward the usage of non-English place names and spellings, inserted foreign phrases and the use of non-English honorifics. Finally, business communication in a lingua franca requires one to consider the pragmatic concerns of relative fluency, face, and dialect comprehension. One must assess the degree of comparative fluency (native speaker vs. proficient vs. ba...
THE VERY NATURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION itself is undergoing transformation as a result of dramatic t... more THE VERY NATURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION itself is undergoing transformation as a result of dramatic technological changes not only in publishing but in the concept of the classroom-based university as an institution. This commentary focuses on facets of scholarly activity bridging from but not strictly related to the writing requirement. If publishing is an extension of teaching, then virtual publishing is, in essence, simply an extension of the virtual classroom.
The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1988
In an increasingly competitive world economy the need for cross-cultural business communication s... more In an increasingly competitive world economy the need for cross-cultural business communication skills is imperative. Yet, many undergraduate business communication programs often ignore this crucial subject altogether. This paper describes two alternate approaches for teaching international business communication. First, an upper-level undergraduate international business communication course is described. This approach reinforces the practice of isolating cross-cultural business communication as a separate field of study, but it does so in an expanded way. The paper describes an actual course designed and currently taught by the author. The second approach described in the paper is one in which the elements of international business communication are integrated throughout the standard introductory undergraduate business communication course. In this
This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,studen... more This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,students. For example, one activity about increasing global interdependence involves an analysis by students of their community to determine the extent to which it is related to the activities of foreign people and foreign-made Products. Objectives and procedures are given for each activity. Charts, discussion topics, and masters for student handouts accompany some of.the activities. Also included in the description of some of the activities are sources-materials, films, and books-related to the topic for theteachers reference. The activities are:versatile and can be used at any greille level. The handbook concludes with ideas for teacher-developed activities. (Author/ND) * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.
This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,studen... more This handbook contains eight classroom activities designed to increase global awareness of,students. For example, one activity about increasing global interdependence involves an analysis by students of their community to determine the extent to which it is related to the activities of foreign people and foreign-made Products. Objectives and procedures are given for each activity. Charts, discussion topics, and masters for student handouts accompany some of.the activities. Also included in the description of some of the activities are sources-materials, films, and books-related to the topic for theteachers reference. The activities are:versatile and can be used at any greille level. The handbook concludes with ideas for teacher-developed activities. (Author/ND) * * via the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). EDRS is not * responsible for the quality of the original document. Reproductions * * supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original.
Meeting at the Crossroads: Bringing Together Scholarship Across Disciplinary and Geographic Bound... more Meeting at the Crossroads: Bringing Together Scholarship Across Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries The Global Advances in Business Communication Journal attempts to be a crossroads in many ways. In its emphasis on cross-disciplinary scholarship, the journal stands at the intersection of global business studies and global communication studies. This is reflected in the diversity of authors and articles in our first two issues that brought together authors and articles from a broad range of business and communication disciplines including Management, Marketing, Foreign Language for Business Purposes, Information Systems, and Business Ethics. This continues to be the case in the current issue, as our authors here are in the fields of Management, Business Communication and Business Administration. Likewise, in geographic scope, the GABC Journal remains a crossroads in both authorship and subject matter that we bring together perspectives from Europe, the Americas and Asia. The first article in our first issue served as a sort of metaphor for this as we brought together perspectives in the panel discussion from experts in the field from Belgium,
One of the most important areas for business educators to address in preparing their students to ... more One of the most important areas for business educators to address in preparing their students to compete effectively in world markets is cross-cultural negotiating and conflict management. To do so, teachers must prepare students to understand the markets into which they enter as managers. The objective is not to learn a great deal about one culture or market, or to divide the world into foreign and domestic markets, but to promote a cross-cultural perspective on the global economy by training students to observe cultures and ask the right questions. An international business communication course offered at Eastern Michigan University takes a two-part approach to teaching conflict management and negotiation. In the first part, students are taught the seven factors most likely to change in a business setting across cultures: language, environment and technology, social organization, contexting, authority conception, nonverbal communication and behavior, and temporal conception. In the second part, students are taught to apply those factors to a five-step model for conflict management. While the approach is designed for business training, the concept underlying it can be applied to many disciplines in which cross-cultural interaction is a factor. (MSE)
As awareness of the need for ethical business behavior increases, businesspeople must address the... more As awareness of the need for ethical business behavior increases, businesspeople must address the issue of an ethical standard acceptable for use in international business or, in individual situations, which country's ethical standards will be respected. Ethical absolutes cannot be determined without cultural bias. Legalistic, religious, and situational frameworks all reflect existing prejudices and values. Legalistic ethics occur most commonly in low-context cultures that place great value on the written word. High-context cultures tend to favor a situational approach to ethics. Religious ethics are determined by the individual religion to which one adheres. In each of these cases, culture divides the ground for a universal ethical standard. In international business, the question arises: at what point should one reject the norms and values of one's own culture to accommodate those of another? The most practical approach to the international businessman is ethical relativity, a willingness to modify one's own ethical views to communicate effectively across cultures. However, ethical relativism in international business does not address the situation in which a society condemns people based on an immutable characteristic such as gender or race. Businesspeople should be encouraged to accept and work with cultural differences but adhere to individual ethics.
NOTE 6p.; In: Proceedings of the Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business... more NOTE 6p.; In: Proceedings of the Eastern Michigan University Conference on Languages for Business and the Professions (4th, Dearborn, MI, May 2-4, 1985); see FL 015 835.
A study compared and contrasted the use of openings, summational-closings, and closures in Italia... more A study compared and contrasted the use of openings, summational-closings, and closures in Italian and U.S. Jyusiness letters-to examine the role of culture in international business communication. It is argued that the Italian business letter should be studied in a functional intra -cultural perspective where its meaning creates and maintains social reality. To support this proposition, cultural idioms and genre markers in letter openings and closings are identified as requiring explicit understanding by students of international commerce and by students of Italian who are studying the genre. Three types of Italian business letters are reviewed and classified, and the results are discussed. Analysis of U.E. letters reveals them to be far more formulaic and consistent by comparison, resulting in a completely opposite tonal quality. Additional research on "live file" Italian letters and on Italian-AMerican intercultural business correspondence is recommended. (MSE)
This keynote address examines the issue of language choice as a factor in intercultural business ... more This keynote address examines the issue of language choice as a factor in intercultural business communication. To this end, the presentation raises three main considerations. First, the international business person must consider the political and cultural implications of language selection. Such issues revolve around official languages, non- official and minority languages and attitudes toward a lingua franca (e.g., English, French, and Chinese.). Second, one needs to consider the linguistic accommodation within a lingua franca. Using the example of English, one finds that differences exist among cultures in their attitudes toward the usage of non-English place names and spellings, inserted foreign phrases and the use of non-English honorifics. Finally, business communication in a lingua franca requires one to consider the pragmatic concerns of relative fluency, face, and dialect comprehension. One must assess the degree of comparative fluency (native speaker vs. proficient vs. ba...
THE VERY NATURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION itself is undergoing transformation as a result of dramatic t... more THE VERY NATURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION itself is undergoing transformation as a result of dramatic technological changes not only in publishing but in the concept of the classroom-based university as an institution. This commentary focuses on facets of scholarly activity bridging from but not strictly related to the writing requirement. If publishing is an extension of teaching, then virtual publishing is, in essence, simply an extension of the virtual classroom.
The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, 1988
In an increasingly competitive world economy the need for cross-cultural business communication s... more In an increasingly competitive world economy the need for cross-cultural business communication skills is imperative. Yet, many undergraduate business communication programs often ignore this crucial subject altogether. This paper describes two alternate approaches for teaching international business communication. First, an upper-level undergraduate international business communication course is described. This approach reinforces the practice of isolating cross-cultural business communication as a separate field of study, but it does so in an expanded way. The paper describes an actual course designed and currently taught by the author. The second approach described in the paper is one in which the elements of international business communication are integrated throughout the standard introductory undergraduate business communication course. In this
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