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Measuring the Effects of Cross-Cultural Communication Styles among Top Management Teams in Union and Non-Union Machine Fabrication Companies in ***** United States

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Measuring the Effects of Cross-Cultural Communication Styles ***** Top Management Teams in Union and Non-Union ***** Fabrication Companies ***** ***** United *****

In today's globally integrated business environment it is likely that top management will encounter persons of a different culture on some level. Top managerial staff ***** likely to enter in***** negotiations ***** conduct other forms ***** business with persons of a different culture. Some may employ staff from differing cultural backgrounds. How they handle these interactions sets the stage for success or failure in an economy that continues to become more culturally integrated as time goes on. Managers must learn to handle business with *****eign partners, foreign subsidiaries, foreign colleagues, and foreign subordinates.

***** research will explore ***** various styles and modes used in Cross-cultural communication among union and non***** manufactur*****g firms. It ***** accomplish this t*****k through the use of a survey *****dministered to top managers of small to medium sized companies located in the United States. The survey will include managers from both union and ********** shops. Managers will be able ***** use information ***** ***** survey to improve Cross-Cultural communications both inside and outside of their organization. The results will help them ***** improve business relationships and gain a competitive ********** by doing so.

Cross-cultural communications ***** relationships were something that only larger corporations needed to worry about in the past. Global ***** was limited by difficulties enter*****g into ***** markets and communication. *****ever, advances in ***** such as the Internet make it e*****ier for medium and small firms to do business on a global level. Many of the small and medium firms have little or no experience ***** business ***** people of ***** cultures. These are ***** company's that will ***** the focus of ***** research project.

***** to ***** business with persons from a culture ***** ***** one's own ***** beyond simply ********** to speak their language. Differences in viewpo*****t and customs can mean mistakes in communication that ***** stall or stop a budding business rel*****tionship. In *****der to underst***** how to do business with someone of a different culture one must delve into how cultural biases ***** affect their opinions and attitudes as well as other aspects such as body language, etiquette, and ***** finer points of the communication process. This will be a topic of explor*****tion in ***** current ***** study.

Background

***** management is a grow*****g research field. Many firms now find it necessary to hire firms or conduct training seminars on ***** to c*****duct business ***** various *****. Cross-cultural communication has become an imp*****tant part ***** the business world, and as the world ***** ***** integrate, it ***** likely to remain so in the future as *****. ***** communication is an import*****t ***** of the bus*****ess world.

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