1) Explain your results based on the 8 categories (communication, evaluating, persuading, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing, and scheduling). What categories did you score above the culture norm? What categories did you score below the culture norm? What are areas of opportunity for improvement? How might you implement these opportunities within your organization? The categories I scored above the culture norm are communicating, evaluating, leading, trusting, disagreeing, and scheduling. The categories I scored low in are persuading and deciding. Areas of improvement are deciding and persuading. All 8 categories could be good for the company if they took this cultural profile because than they could use the results to train there employees certain ways.
2) What barriers to effective cross-cultural communication have you observed in your organization? What strategies have you used to address these barriers? Some barriers that I have observed in my organization is a language barrier and time. With the language barrier we try our best to work with the customer sometimes we have someone who can speak that language or we phones or computers that have a translation app/ website. Another barrier is time during the
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What are your scores? Are you a high context person? Medium Context? Or Low Context individual? Based on table 9.1 (p. 202-203 of your text), What categories are areas of opportunity for growth and improvement for you? How might you demonstrate these changes in your organization? My scores for the high-low context assessment are time 15, relationship, 15, space, 13, and communication 14. My overall score was 57 which places me in the low context. Areas of growth and improvement are task vs relationship and direct vs. indirect. How might I use these changes in the organization I would use task or relationships and direct and indirect depending on the