Middlebury

ICCO 9652

Decrypting Cultures-Workplace

Business prosperity in our perpetually globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decrypt cultures far from our own. A cross cultural effectiveness course in team management and cross cultural communications in the workplace. The course will explore certain behaviors in different world cultures. The Cultural Iceberg Model will be used to help identify the conscious part of the culture which in turn influences our perspective of another culture. These conscious parts of culture are depicted in many ways, one of which are business practices. The course will discuss in detail the culturally common business practices in a variety of cultures. Practices that influence business decisions (communicating, evaluating, persuading, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing and scheduling). The course will improve the student’s effectiveness by decrypting how culture influence our workplace and/or cross border collaboration.
Subject:
Intercultural Competence
Department:
Language & Intercultural Study
Division:
Transltn, Interpret & Lang Edu
Requirements Fulfilled:

Sections in Spring 2023 - MIIS, MIIS Second Half of Term

Spring 2023 - MIIS, MIIS Winter/J Term only

ICCO9652O-S23 Lecture (Shakir)