Do you work with the Chinese?
If so, then there are some fundamental cultural concepts you need to be aware of.
Do you work with the Chinese?
If so, then there are some fundamental cultural concepts you need to be aware of.
Do you work with the Chinese?
A common challenge many foreigners come across is how to handle the word ‘no’.
It’s fair to say that most ethnic groups stereotype other ethnicities.
Whilst stereotypes provide a way of understanding one’s own culture or ethnicities against other’s, they are generally unhelpful and misleading.
As COVID-19 continues to spread around the globe, China has claimed relative success in dealing with the virus.
On closer inspection, much of this success comes down to Chinese culture.
Do you work with the Chinese?
Then you really need to get to grasp with the importance of face – mianzi – in Chinese culture.
Doing business in China? Then you'll be attending lots of meetings!
If you’re attending meetings in China, then it’s important to understand a little about Chinese culture and how meetings are run.
Wherever you travel in the world, getting someone’s name wrong can be the difference between making a good impression or a bad impression.
If you’re travelling to China on business, it’s important that you take the time to understand the naming structures.
If you want to know how easy it is to do business with China, then look no further than the Business Culture Complexity Index ™ (BCCI), a tool which provides some great insights for expanding businesses.
The BCCI uses a number of data comparisons to produce a single ‘ease of doing business’ score for the world’s largest 50 economies, culturally speaking that is.
We hear a lot in the news about cultural differences with Western companies going East, but rarely about Eastern companies coming to the West.
A great little article in the South China Morning Post by Mark Magnier suggests that when it comes to navigating different business cultures, Chinese companies are finding very similar challenges when working on the global stage, especially in the USA.
With so many cultural differences between China and the West, the decision to relocate to China as an expat can be a difficult one.
Doing business with the Chinese? If so, then it’s more than likely that food will be involved at some point!
We are delighted to announce the release of our latest online cultural awareness training course - on China.
The new addition to our catalogue of online courses offers lots of fantastic insights into Chinese culture, the people and of course, Chinese business practices.
As many Chinese tourists only pay a brief visit to the city, local Boston companies are now getting training to increase their appeal to this important group of visitors (and revenue stream).
Do you export? AstraZeneca's Stuart Anderson offers some insights into the importance of understanding and adapting to the local culture in order to maximise success.
A true story: when a US telecoms giant decided to replace its manager in Thailand several years ago, it chose an ABC - American-born Chinese - in the belief he would be more culturally attuned to doing business in Asia.
He was not shy about telling his colleagues how to behave and one evening berated a couple of European rivals who had been caught engaged in financial shenanigans.
They decided to play a joke on the new arrival. They told their driver to follow him and tell him he was going to be killed. A crude jest, but the young manager was panicked into ringing his head office saying his life was in danger.
The head office told him to stay calm, stick to the business district and take precautions.
What they did not tell him was that they had hired a security firm that uses ex-CIA agents - at some considerable cost - to watch his back.
When the security outfit made its report to the conglomerate a week or so later, it turned out the first-time-in-Asia manager was doing lots of cultural homework - spending every night in at least one bordello. His career wilted.
The conglomerate had made a mistake. The manager may have been competent, but - appearances notwithstanding - showed no special talent or experience for operating in Asia.
Read more > FT.com
Punjabi is the fourth most spoken language in Canada after English, French and Chinese, according to an official census.
While English and French are official languages, Chinese, Punjabi, Spanish, Italian and Arabic are the most five most widely-spoken non-official languages in the country. Punjabi is also the 4th most spoken language in the Canadian Parliament.
According to the census by Statistics Canada in 2006, the most widely-spoken non-official language is Chinese (2.6 per cent of Canadians). It is followed by Punjabi (0.8 per cent), Spanish (0.7 per cent), Italian (0.6 per cent) and Arabic (0.5 per cent).
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