Cross-Cultural Awareness

Business people today face an increasing range of culturally diverse situations. To ensure success in business, many organizations are using cross-cultural training to improve their manager's cross-cultural effectiveness and enhance their communication skills. In a diverse workplace there are many cultures collide. Many culture norms influence a manager's behavior and subsequent reactions (Gardenswartz L. and Rowe A., 2001). "Culture is behind our behavior on the job. Often without our realization, culture influences how close we stand, how loud we speak, how we deal with conflict - even how we participate in a meeting." (Gardenswartz L. and Rowe A., 2001, p139). This essay will provide the definition of cross-cultural and discuss cross-cultural training used in business and organizations. In this brief essay, to further discuss about the importance of cross-cultural training in business, the involvement and the examples. Discussion about benefits brought by the training and perspective of the importance of cross-cultural training will also provided.…