Intercultural communication teamwork and leadership/CCOM103/Communicating across difference/Divergent cultural characteristics

Read Chapter 18.4 in Business Communication for Success. The key concepts in this reading are that all cultures reflect inequality, diversity, and divergent values, and our community interactions shape our perspectives. The text also cites early research that describes different cultural ‘orientations’ on dimensions like high to low context communication, individualism to collectivism, short to long term time sense, and levels of uncertainty tolerance, and power distance. What do you think about these cultural ‘orientations’ from your own cultural perspective? Recommended: Do Exercises 2-5 at the end of Chapter 18.4 and compare your responses to the ones you gave in the Chapter 18 Introductory exercises 1 and 2.