1MANAGEMENT Week 6 Communicating to strangers Cross cultural communication takes place when a massage is encoded in one culture and decodedinanother.Crossculturalcommunicationiscomparativelystressfulthan communication between the same culture due to the lack of knowledge about the culture and personality of the receiver. When it comes to business, communication plays a major part. Establishing effective communication can be considered as one of the most crucial roles of efficient managers (Tenzer et al. 2014). Effective communication is significant for the leaders since it helps them to perform the basic functions of the management that includes organizing, planning, leading as well as controlling. Communication plays a major role multicultural organization.Consideringthefactthatasignificantnumberoforganizationalissuesin multicultural companies results due to lack of communication skills between the employees and the leaders, in order to maintain and enhance the yearly revenue, it is highly crucial for management to eradicate communicational issue from multicultural organizations. The chief four issues faced by employees while communicating with strangers in multicultural company are as follows: 1.Difference in communication styles in western and eastern cultures 2.Trouble in accents and fluency 3.Difference in attitudes towardshierarchyandauthority In order to deal with the above mentioned issue, it is highly crucial to provide effective cultural training to the employees (Tenzer and Pudelko 2015). They should be educated about theimportanceofculturaldiversitywithintheorganization.Bothpersonnelaswellas
2MANAGEMENT professional communication should be encouraged and strict policies should be implemented to eliminate cultural discrimination.
3MANAGEMENT Reference list Tenzer, H. and Pudelko, M., 2015. Leading across language barriers: Managing language- induced emotions in multinational teams.The Leadership Quarterly,26(4), pp.606-625. Tenzer, H., Pudelko, M. and Harzing, A.W., 2014. The impact of language barriers on trust formation in multinational teams.Journal of International Business Studies,45(5), pp.508-535.