Barriers to Intercultural Communication

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Barriers to Intercultural Communication
Over the years small businesses are growing
rapidly and they are opening their branches outside
their country, therefore, employing the works outside
their countries hence forming a diversified workforce.
This intermingling will result in the cross-cultural
diversity which interns lead to cross-cultural
communication. In this report am going to base my
discussion on the study that was conducted in Malaysia
at companies that deal with the electronic gadgets that
are located at the Northern Peninsular. The agenda of
this comprehensive study was to come up with the
factors that hinder intercultural communication in the
workplace (Aneas and Sandin, 2009). In any workplace
where different cultures are working together, there are
various levels of the company’s culture. These culture
levels include;
The organization behavior is the first thing that
the newcomer or else a visitor will have to notice before
going to other things. Some of these things that the

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visitor will see include the mission and vision of the
organization as well as the logo of the organization.
According to Xiaoming and Junchen, (2012) the
organization behavior will constitute the observable
patterns of behavior as well as the external show of the
culture which may be a perk that is provided by the top-
level managers. Also, some notable features of a certain
behavior may be regarded as a longevity, for example,
organizational myths.
The second level of cultural level in the
workplace is the norms and values. This includes what
the top level managers command, the reason as to why
the condition is the way it is as per now as well as why it
should be like that. These values and norms determine
the behavior but these behaviors may not be seen
directly (Fayolle et al, 2010). In the organization, there
might be a big difference between the written or the
stated and those values that are operational. These
values and norms may be manifested via the attitude as
well as those behaviors that are accepted and almost