Communicating Across Cultures at Work
Oliver Guirdham
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Description for Communicating Across Cultures at Work
Paperback. This new edition examines intercultural communication in the workplace. Firmly grounded in theory, it offers practical suggestions on how people can develop cultural awareness and communication skills. Fully updated with the latest research, this makes an ideal core text. Num Pages: 432 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJK; KJM; KJP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice for developing skilled work communication in an intercultural world. Using many illustrations and international examples, the book analyses culture, cultural diversity and cultural similarities and differences in how we interact at work and in the psychological factors that influence our communication. It shows how to overcome impediments to intercultural communication and interact effectively with different others, whether face-to-face or by email, chat, text, phone or video. It describes cultural differences in negotiating, cooperation, coordination, knowledge ... Read more
This revised and updated fourth edition of this core textbook builds on the text's established success. It provides the basis of knowledge, understanding and practice for developing skilled work communication in an intercultural world. Using many illustrations and international examples, the book analyses culture, cultural diversity and cultural similarities and differences in how we interact at work and in the psychological factors that influence our communication. It shows how to overcome impediments to intercultural communication and interact effectively with different others, whether face-to-face or by email, chat, text, phone or video. It describes cultural differences in negotiating, cooperation, coordination, knowledge ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137526366
SKU
V9781137526366
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Oliver Guirdham
Maureen Guirdham formerly Director of the MBA Programme at City University and Head of the Business School at Westminster University, UK. In recent years, she has worked extensively in central Europe, central Asia, India and Southern Africa.
Reviews for Communicating Across Cultures at Work
Endorsements for the 3rd Edition 'This is an impressively thorough update of an already excellent textbook. It provides a practical but unfailingly well-researched overview of the major areas of intercultural and multicultural business communication, in such a way that students get acquainted with the discussions that underlie the resulting guidelines. This makes it a very useful course book for organizational ... Read more