Essay On Cultural Barriers To Communication

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Part 3 Culture barriers to communication in business Communication is involved in all daily business activity. In a multinational organization, there will be people from various culture working together to achieve the organization’s goals. Thus, within this multicultural environment, cultural differences can create barriers to communication in the workplace. People from different culture will communicate differently which can hinder communication between both parties, thus effective communication cannot take place. There are many cultures barriers to communication between Italian and the Chinese. Firstly, the communication barriers face by both the Italian and Chinese is the differences in language. People from different cultures will usually speak of their own unique languages which they communicate with people of their same culture.
This occurs when the Italian and the Chinese are both fluent in their own native language. Thus, creating communication barriers between the Italian and Chinese where effective communication is hindered. Employee whose primary language may be Chinese may find it difficult to communicate with an Italian speaker and vice versa. Thus, both of them are unable to …show more content…

They also tend to be emotional, even in a business setting, when they are discussing on a project or topic. The Chinese will get distracted by all the hand movements and not pay attention to what he/she is trying to convey. The Chinese tends to be more reserved and keeping emotion hidden as well as not use much hand gestures when conveying messages to one another. The Italian speaker may feel that the Chinese speaker is not interested or not participative. Sometimes the Italian speaker may speak loudly and interrupt as this is normal for them, but to the Chinese speaker it is considered to be

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