Intercultural Effectiveness Development Plan Report 2022

Running head: INTERCULTURAL EFFECTIVENESS DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Intercultural Effectiveness Development Plan
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

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Table of Contents
Section 1: Introduction...............................................................................................................2
Section 2: Reflection and Interpretation....................................................................................3
Section 3: Development of an Action Plan................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
Reference List............................................................................................................................8

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Section 1: Introduction
Effectiveness in terms of intercultural communication is a unique ability of an individual
that helps the person to establish communication in a diverse multi-cultural environment in
the workplace. This report would help me to build a personal development plan as well as an
action plan in order to improve my effectiveness towards intercultural communication in
coming future.
Since I have joined the university, I have been facing culture shock in terms of
communicating as well as interacting with my fellow mates, studying with me. This type of
culture shock aroused since I have been undergoing various psychological disorientation that
I have been experiencing in several degrees as I entered into the new environment in my
university. When I came here to study, I was not quite aware of the culture of the people who
had been studying in the university for long time and I was also shocked due to ethnocentric
attitude of people, as they believe like that their culture is superior enough in terms of
ethnicity and they disregard the entry of people who have different cultural background.
Section 2: Reflection and Interpretation
Review of weakness
I have realized that the basic intention of mine is to investigate into the improvement of
performance of mine in terms of effective communication and gather trust, respect and love
from my fellow members. However, due to lack of adequate knowledge on various cultures
as well as customs, I often face difficulty in speaking to other people from other cultures
since I do not have good hold over native languages in which they speak. I want to become a
good advisor in my class to my fellow mates, therefore I lack the confidence to speak to them
in an open platform.

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The primary elements of establishing importance of mine among the pupils actually relies on
face to face interaction and constant communication through virtual medium (Adler, Doktor
and Redding, 1986). In this aspect I have often experienced that female classmates often
withdraw themselves from talking to male members and the males try to dominate over the
decisions of female members, as a result they feel neglected and there had been a decrease in
frequency of their participation towards decision making processes (Zinn and Dill, 2016). I
feel that I have weakness towards convincing them that they equal fundamental rights
irrespective of their gender and foster within them the spirits of working with understanding
among each other.
In-depth analysis on different reasons associated with weakness
This is because I have not been able to adjust myself in a culture that is mostly associated
with the theory on collectivism. Collectivism is usually manifested in the society where
people learn to get integrated into cohesive form of groups since their childhood and there
they know ways to adjust themselves without having a doubt on loyalty that exist among
themselves (Harris, Moran and Andrews, 1991).
I would like to use certain measures in order to determine various weaknesses towards
intercultural communication for example cultural maps, preference on time as well as certain
orientations on culture. From the communication model of Alder, I have come to know that
misinterpretation as well as misperception of cultures as well as languages have a great
impact on the receiver on how he is able to decode the message he receives from the sender.
According to the theories on Bipolar Categorization, it is actually very difficult to predict
behaviours associated with people and these are actually having an effect on the dimensions
of the organization (Adler, 1981). I find that it is necessary part of mine, to adopt certain

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changes in my behaviour towards the social culture so that people recognize me as a part of
their family and have a respect on my integrity.
I would like to take into account the biculturalism as well as various methods on identity
integration that would help me to evolve myself. Usually bicultural are exposed to two
different cultures and they possess greater sense of creativity as well as cognitive
complexities, my goal is to motivate myself so that I can perceive true essence through the
mainstream and maintain identities associated with ethnic culture that would be compatible as
well as integral, this helps in Bicultural Identity Integration (BII).
Section 3: Development of an Action Plan
An action plan helps to overcome various weaknesses and would also help to improve my
effectiveness in terms of inter-cultural communication at the college as well as workplace in
future.
The main mission behind my goal is to achieve effectiveness in terms of cross- culture
communication so that I can adjust myself in the new surroundings and the environment in
my university.
The factors that mostly lie underneath my minds while communicating with people who
belong to another culture are actually the things that mostly lie invisible and never come to
the surface. This debars me to continue easy communication with my friends like their
values, way of thinking against the other culture, subjective knowledge as well as implicit
learning (Gelfand, Erez and Aycan, 2007).
Various cultural orientations actually make me as a person to be more compatible in any type
of business environment. Theories of Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck in the year 1961 as it has
been mentioned in the lessons, certain factors actually have a great deal of impact on
relationship with people that is individualism otherwise collectivism (Tarhini, Hone and Liu,

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2014). According to him development of three factors in the pyramid like Personality,
Culture as well as Human Nature would help me as a person to become compatible to any
surroundings in the societal level.
Conclusion
Therefore from the above discussion, based on the action plan proper methods need to be
adopted so that I can form good bonding with my teachers and friends and adapt to the new
environment or atmosphere in the college. So I must undertake responsive actions and adopt
necessary changes within myself so that I can establish a unique place for myself in the
university. The journey would be tough however with proper support and guidance from the
formulated action plan would help me to turn myself into a complete new individual.

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Reference List
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Harris, P.R., Moran, R.T. and Andrews, J., 1991. Managing cultural differences (Vol. 3).
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Black, J.S. and Mendenhall, M., 1990. Cross-cultural training effectiveness: A review and a
theoretical framework for future research. Academy of management review, 15(1),
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Gelfand, M.J., Erez, M. and Aycan, Z., 2007. Cross-cultural organizational behavior. Annu.
Rev. Psychol., 58, pp.479-514.

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Tarhini, A., Hone, K. and Liu, X., 2014. The effects of individual differences on e-learning
users’ behaviour in developing countries: A structural equation model. Computers in
Human Behavior, 41, pp.153-163.
Zinn, M.B. and Dill, B.T., 2016. Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism. In Race,
gender and class (pp. 76-82). Routledge.