This article examines how performance in intercultural workplace interactions can be compromised even in the absence of overt prejudice. The authors show that individuals respond differently to nonverbal behavioral mirroring cues exhibited in workplace interactions, depending on their cultural group membership. In a field study with experienced managers, U.S. Anglos and U.S. Latinos interacted ...

The implementation of global virtual teams presents modern organizations with significant challenges, such as a multicultural workforce and the use of information and communication technology. Cultural diversity increases teamwork complexity and may weaken a team's effectiveness and jeopardize its viability. Selection and implementation of appropriate information technology may facilitate group...

Although there has been rapid growth in the use of the Internet around the world, many issues remain for the development of the online transactions. Many studies have shown that one of the inhibiting factors of online transactions is the lack of confidence in the seller. But, as the Internet itself is an open technology and not a familiar environment, online customers face another problem that ...

Lina Lee University of New Hampshire The current study explores closely how using a combined modalities of asynchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) via blogs and face-to-face (FTF) interaction through ethnographic interviews with native speakers (L1s) supports autonomous learning as the result of reflective and social processes. The study involves 16 American undergraduate students wh...

Globalisation is not a new experience. The anthropologist N.P. Pieterse (2004) maintains that anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists see it as a long-term historical process, which has witnessed, amongst others, the ancient population movements across and between continents and the diffusion of technologies (military technologies, numeracy, literacy, scie...

This study examines variation in evaluations of im/politeness of a recording of a naturally occurring intercultural apology, focusing in particular on potential cultural differences in these evaluations across speakers of (Australian) English and (Mandarin) Chinese. We first closely analyse the apology itself as a form of social action, and suggest in the course of this analysis that evaluation...

Nations and people of the world are increasingly interconnected and mutually interdependent. Globally, most cities and countries are becoming more diverse internally, with citizens and residents of varying races, religions, ethnicities and national backgrounds. Meanwhile, greater the risk is associated with economic or political aloofness and social isolation. All of these social forces are fos...

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Links [1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/international/study-abroad-programs [2] https://studentlife.uoguelph.ca/oia/LINKprogram [3] https://studentlife.uoguelph.ca/chroma [4] http://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/get-assistance/writing/ealesl-support/conversation-partners [5] https://studentlife.uoguelph.ca/oia/intercultural-awareness/radio-culturale [6] http://www.cfru.ca/get-involved [7] https://studentlife.u...