Reference no: EM13451700

The financing is a company from Dubai, the materials are coming from China, the engineering and technology are coming from Germany and the labor will be hired locally with management from the United States. You invite all of the players to the headquarters in the United States for a big meeting to explain the project and get to know one another. The people seem to be staying with their own groups and not minging.

1.) What is the culture phenomenon here?

2.) What do you know about these cultures specifically their economic, political, educational and social systems that could help you in getting them together.

3.) How do you explain the lack of intercultural communication?

4.) What are some of the contrasting cultural values of these countries?

Part II: You are concered about some of the language issues as you start the meeting particularly the fact that the United States is a low context country and some of the countries present are high context countries, you only speak English and you don't have an interpreter present.

1.) How will this affect the presentation?

2.) What are some of the issues you should be concerned about regarding verbal and nonverbal language for this group?

3.) What strategy would you used to begin to have everyone develop a relationship with each other that will help ease further negotiations, development and implementation?