Designing a Workshop to Address Cross-Cultural Differences

This project outlines the design of a cross-cultural workshop aimed at fostering understanding and managing differences between Australian and Chinese business leaders and their subordinates. The workshop, to be held in Melbourne, involves 100 participants from various cities in Australia and China. Its objectives include analyzing cultural issues, applying strategies based on the Hofstede model, and developing leadership skills. The workshop will cover topics such as language differences, values, and customs, as well as the development of mental models and leadership training. The workshop will utilize various tools like microphones, projectors, and whiteboards, and will involve activities such as registration, presentations, practical exercises, and feedback sessions. Promotion will be done through online and offline channels. The project also details logistics, evaluation methods, and follow-up procedures. The workshop's success will be measured through participant feedback and post-event analysis, aimed at improving future iterations. The project emphasizes the importance of leaders in facilitating successful trade relations and highlights the need for cross-cultural training to navigate potential barriers such as language, values, and beliefs.

Learning of
cross-cultural
differences
Student’s name
10/1/19

Designing Of workshop
• The workshop will be conducted in
Melbourne and will include the 100
participants from Sydney, Brisbane,
Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing,
Shenzhen and Shanghai respectively.
• The participants will be from different
countries so as to create holistic
structure that will help in learning and
acceptance of each other cultures.

Workshop Goals
 Growing relationships between China and
Australia has developed the emerging needs
to control the cross-cultural differences and
focuses on expanding the three-tier trade
relationship between Australia and China
(Moran, Harris & Moran, 2011).
 The workshop is designed to analyse the key
cultural issues and the remedies to manage
them by the application of various strategies
and tools.

Growing Relation
 It is analysed that in the earlier years
China has various restrictions n the
import and the exports of the goods.
 Now the country has remove its
restrictions and focuses on expanding
the three tier trade relations between
Australia and China(Dikotter,2015).

Workshop Objectives
 The objectives of the workshop are to analyse the
cultural issues that act as the barriers to expanding
the three-tier trade relationship between Australia
and China(Murphy & Reichard, 2011).
 The objectives of the organization will be attained
by providing a deep insight into the culture of
Australia and China by using the Hofstede model to
understand the difference between the cultures of
both countries.

Hofstede Cultural Model
 The model of Hofstede
consists of various
cultural dimensions that
help in analysing the
cultural differences
between the different
countries(Geert
Hofstede, 2018).
 Using this model the
workshop will provide
the insight into the
cultural differences
between Australia and
China

Cultural Differences
 The potential barriers that occur while expanding the
trade relations are the difference in the languages,
values and the customs of the employees of the
different organization.
 Low power distance in Australia as compared to China.
 High individualism in Australia as compared to China
(Triandis, 2018).
 Low degree of long term orientation as compared to
the country China.

Cultural differences
 Apart from the Hofstede cultural
dimensions. The language, values and
belief also affects the development of
trade relations within the countries.
 The difference in language creates
misunderstandings, changes in the
perception of the individual (Lovelock &
Patterson, 2015).

Development of the leader
 The business leader is the main
ingredient for the successful
expansion of trade relations
(Clinton, 2018).
 The workshop will focus to train the
leaders by developing the mental
models of the leaders and training
them to involve ceremony,
socialization, symbols, specialized
language in the
organizations(Hammond, Clapp &
Palanski, 2017).

Target Audience
 The main target audience of the
workshop will comprise the international
business leaders of the organization and
their subordinates.
 The participants will be business leaders
from the organizations of the country
China and Australia and the
subordinates of the leaders.

Designing of the workshop
 The workshop is designed by involving
the participants more in the process of
delivering.
 It will develop the activities such as
ceremony, efficiency test, training of
different languages and deep
understanding of the culture and the
values of both the countries(Triandis,
2018).