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1. Explain negative cultural attitudes people may have t cultural attitudes people may have towards other cultures. Explain what can be done to avoid the negative cultural attitudes. 2. Explain the approach that you will u lain the approach that you will use to write a report if your audience is likely to be; a) Receptive or open minded b) Skeptical and hostile about the findings. 3. What is cultural Pluralism? Give two reasons why the subject line is important in an email message? Explain briefly what the following terms mean in relation to business communication. a. Tagging b. Information Architecture c. Stress Interview d. Primary Members 6. Explain the difference between high-context and low-context cultures. 7. Identify five ways to grab your audience's attention and five ways to hold it. 8. Sending and receiving IM in the workplace is believed to be of low cost and highly convenient, but it is often overused and misused. Explain how you can make IM more efficient and effective for business communication purposes. 9. Explain the difference between high-context and low-context cultures. 10. Why do managers encourage conflict in teams? To what extent should it be encouraged? 11. The range and variety of nonverbal signals is almost endless, but you can grasp the basics by observing six general categories. List down five of these nonverbal signs that communicates across cultures. 12. Email etiquette is necessary to maintain professionalism in the workplace. Explain the ways to give attention to email etiquette. 13. Explain the three types of reasoning can you use in logical appeals? 14. The figures shown below are the students' enrolment at MNU Business School for the following courses in a period of three years. The management wishes to present these statistics in graphical form to show which course among them is most popular in the faculty. Course 2015 2016 2017 Bachelor of Business 120 110 115 Bachelor of Accounting and Finance 85 140 - 160 Bachelor or Human Resource Management | 30 | 65 100 (a) Present the above information using the most suitable type of graph that would illustrate the data clearly. (b) Explain the trend in enrolment with the help of the graph drawn in part (a). 15. Define ethnocentrism and stereotyping, and give three suggestions for overcoming these limiting mindsets. 30 65

Explanation / Answer

People can have different negative cultural attitude towards the other culture and people belonging to that culture. The first negative cultural attitude is stereotyping. It involves a building of static image or fixed impression about a culture that may not be true and it creates ambiguity. It leads to the creation of   negative image regarding the other cultures. The second negative cultural attitude is the lack of tolerance or feeling of inferiority about the other culture. It brings a derogatory approach and lack of respect towards the people of other cultures and a misunderstanding is built between the people of different cultures. The third negative cultural attitude is xenophobia where people from one culture does not like the people of other culture. It can be observed in the behavior of Adolf Hitler and it was the primary reason for his heinous acts. The fourth negative cultural attitude is ethnocentrism where people have preconceived misconceptions about the other cultures and people. These misconceptions are built by the upbringings of their own culture.

Following can be done to avoid the negative cultural attitude:

A.    By providing the cultural and language training where people from one culture can learn the characteristics of other culture and develop the behavioral and attitude modification

B.    By promoting the formation of informal groups and teams that interact on a regular basis. It develops the common understanding about each other and negativity comes down.

C.    Organizing the family get together so that a social relations get develop and people of different culture understand each other.

D.    By forming an organizational culture where each culture is respect with its values and tolerance is developed.

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