Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication (Guide to Business Communication Series) (Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Communication) - Softcover

Reynolds, Sana; Valentine, Deborah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130497843 ISBN 13: 9780130497840

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

For MBA courses in Cross-Cultural Workplace Communication, Management Communication, and International Business; also appropriate for BBA courses in Business Communication, Organizational Communication, and Multicultural, Cross-Cultural, or Intercultural Workplace Communication.

The goal of this text is to help students either academically or professionally communicate across cultures by promoting cross-cultural understanding and fostering communication with foreign-born employees or employers. Providing new insights on culture not taught in sales training, Guide to Cross-Cultural Communication is a handy reference with information pertinent to negotiations, business writing, and speaking with those from diverse cultural backgrounds, with business-related examples throughout.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This concise, practical book will help you communicate successfully in culturally diverse workplaces at home and abroad. You will learn to...

• Use sensitive cross-cultural writing and speaking skills.
• Communicate successfully in cultures with different use of eye contact, body language, personal space, and silence.
• Interact effectively with people who seem to have a completely different sense of time.
• Negotiate and build credibility in various cultures, using different legal concepts.

Like all the books in the Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Business Communication, this book is...

• Brief: summarizes key ideas only
• Practical: offers clear, straightforward useful tools
• Reader-friendly: provides an easy-to-skim format

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130497843
• ISBN 13: 9780130497840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160