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Cross-cultural communication styles in Europe
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
Western and Eastern European cultures share many things in common, but one distinction is the way people view their ability to change external conditions that affect their lives. “One of the key concepts in defining culture is how people perceive that they can affect their own environment,” says Thunderbird Professor Denis Leclerc, Ph.D. “Western Europeans have a belief that they can change their environment, while Eastern Europeans see more constraints.” Leclerc discusses European culture in this podcast from Thunderbird Online Executive Certificates. Thunderbird Online’s facilitated professional development programs are available to global business professionals around the world. These top-ranked programs are accessible, convenient and up-to-date with the most insightful global business content from the world’s No. 1-ranked school in international business. | Audio: Cross-cultural communications while traveling in Europe (10:01)
When Thunderbird Professor Mary Teagarden, Ph.D., arrived in China as a business consultant and researcher in 1978, car factories still relied on donkey power. “The donkeys would move the engines around to different stations to pick up buckets of tool and parts,” she says. “It was primitive at best.” She had to schedule an appointment two days in advance to make an overseas telephone call. And she had to pass through bureaucratic hurdles to use the library. “I had to write a paper about why I needed to use a book,” she says. Conditions have changed dramatically in the 33 years since then. In this podcast, recorded Aug. 5, 2011, Teagarden describes miraculous transformations she has witnessed in four areas: Manufacturing, telecommunications, information access and infrastructure. Learn more Oct. 4, 2011, when Teagarden speaks at the 