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List and discuss the 3 forms by which MNC's run the risk of their assests becoming hostage to host control?
- Nationalism: Public opinions is rallied in favor of national goals and against foreign influence
- Protectionism: Host institutes of partial or complete closing of borders to withstand competitive foreign products
- Governmentalism: Government uses its policy setting role to favor national interests
- ex. Britains decision to privatized its telephone system
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Describe the influence of marketing, production, human resources and finance of the Host Country culture?
- Marketing :Price fixing, graphic advertisement
- Production: labor laws, safety and hazard
- finance: taxes
- hr: employee pay
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How can we reduce noise in cross cultural communication?
- Trust in communication.
- Understand the differences in communicating styles and values will help to reduce barriers.
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What problems may a person form a high context culture encounter in your first low context culture?
High context communicators perceive low contexters as rude or abrupt and not concerned about building a relationship. Low context communicators perceive high contexters as ambiguous,having something to hide or beating around the bush. Lazy, never having done what was agreed.
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List and discuss six variables in the negotiation process.
- Concern with protocol
- complexity of the communicative context
- nature of the persuasive context
- role of individual aspiration
- risktaking propensity
- value of time
- bases of trust
- decision making system
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In what ways might the American style of negotiation may be misinterpret in another culture. Give example
- The american desire to get down to business quickly may be perceived as a lack of interest.
- Americans think in a time frame that emphasizes the present and theshort-term future, while the Japanese think in a long-term rangeAmericans think in a time frame that emphasizes the present and theshort-term future, while the Japanese think in a long-term range
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To what extent do you feel national culture is influenced by the country's educational system? and what other influences are they?
- Creates clear basis for mutual benefit
- improves predictability / strive to conflict and keep communication opened
- develops mutual binding
- Other Factors:
- Religion
- Family
- Politics
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List and discuss 8 categories that form the subsystem of any society?
- Kinship: system adapted to guide family relationship
- education: formal or informal education of workers in a foreign firm affects the expectations placed on those workers int he workplace
- economy: whatever the economic system is, it has a powerful influence; sourcing,distribution incentives and repatriation of capital
- politics: the system of govt possess various constraints and its freedom to do business
- religion: spiritual beliefs of a society are so powerful that they transcend other cultural aspects
- associations: many arise out of formal/informal groups that make up a society
- health: system of healthcare affects employees productivity,expectations and attitude
- recreation: affects work behavior and perception of work role
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