Privacy Across Culture
Intellectual communication is the process of communicating between two cultures. Intellectual communication involves an interpretive, contextual, symbolic, and transactional process where individuals from different cultural backgrounds create and share meanings during interactions (Grothe, 2020). Privacy across culture is one of the essential concepts that enable people to develop a conducive social environment with respect to personal boundaries. To effectively communicate with people from other cultures, one must understand their culture to avoid misunderstandings during social interactions (Grothe, 2020). Therefore, understanding other people’s cultures eliminates behavior and attitude barriers in communication. Privacy across cultures employs nonverbal communication skills that enable them to appreciate others as a sign of respect and appreciation. For instance, American residents have a habit of giving a tour to their guests as a sign of welcoming them to their house, even though the guest did not ask (Grothe, 2020). I can apply privacy across cultures in a business environment to improve employee performance. For example, encouraging employees to develop customer-friendly behavior such as greeting, smiling, and marinating eye contact promotes a customer satisfaction experience.
Cultural Space
Cultural space is another concept of intellectual communication that uses nonverbal communication to understand our environment. An individual’s environment determines the effectiveness of communication between two individuals from different cultures; this helps one develop topics of conversations or the type of products a community uses by predicting their response (Grothe, 2020). For instance, Wal-Mart is an international organization that operates across different cultures but has not been successful in Asia (Grothe, 2020). Asian communities consume different products from America and China, creating a low demand for Wal-Mart products. I can also use cultural space to develop employee training programs in a business environment. As a good manager, understanding the cultures of subordinates will help create training programs such as seminars and workshops to improve their skills. It will also contribute to understanding the types of products a culture uses by learning their likes and dislikes. Hence, I will implement appropriate advertisement strategies that will not offend consumers’ cultural beliefs and norms by predicting their reactions.
Reference
Grothe, T. (2020). 5: Nonverbal Processes in Intercultural Communication. LibreTexts. Web.