Intercultural Conflicts

A culture must have several characteristics: it must be adaptive, transgenerational, symbolic, shared, learned, and patterned. Culture influences relationships and interactions between people. Thus, each culture has specific habits and behaviors. In consequence, the interaction between two cultures generates some difficulties while adapting the communication patterns. This problem must be taken into account in business. Many companies deal with foreign clients but forgot to study the foreign culture and fail in that aspect. The most difficult characteristic in doing business with another culture is to understand the other culture and to adapt our attitudes so as to obtain the best communication. That's why companies must study foreign companies and keep an "open mind". A similar case in point is that of Intel in China. In this case, there is an intercultural management issue between Charles Tang and Yong Li. The first difficulty is to be perceived as a local in Beijing, who has imposed or adapted to his choices. The second difficulty of Charles Tang is to be perceived as an expatriate externally. We examine how Tang faced and overcame these hurdles on his road to achieve his goals.

Plus d’extraits de Intercultural Management - example of the Intel companyin China

[...] It is rare in China. ← Achievement VS. Ascription Whereas Americans are based on achievement, Chinese are based on ascription. Thus, status of Americans is based on how the person performs their functions, while status of Chinese is based on who is the person. In consequence, Americans judge status on the competences whereas Chinese judge on filiations. ← Time Americans have a sequential approach. Thus, they do only one activity at a time, they keep their concentration on one activity rather than doing many activities at the same time. [...]

[...] Intercultural management is the field that allows adapting the communication to be understood by all cultures. Two intercultural issues and one...