Long and Short Term Orientation

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Establishing a Professional ‘Self’ through Effective Intercultural Communication

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National University of Singapore

Establishing a Professional ‘Self’ through Effective Intercultural Communication

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Cours 1 sur 5 dans Specialization Effective Communication in the Globalised Workplace

In the course ‘Establishing a professional ‘self’ through effective intercultural communication’, you will learn how to communicate effectively to establish relationships with colleagues in a culturally and linguistically diverse community and workplace. As language reflects cultures, we begin the course by highlighting the need to take into considerations cultural values when we communicate in a multicultural community and workplace. We then move on to discuss some effective communication skills required to build relationships with colleagues in a globalised workplace. You will learn to adopt appropriate intrapersonal and interpersonal, verbal and nonverbal, communicative strategies to present information based on the 7 communication principles. Finally, you will learn to build your personal profile and appropriately align yourself in a globalised workplace.

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Establish Work Relationships

In this module, you will learn that, in order to adopt appropriate communication strategies in a globalised workplace, it is very important to gain insights into what is valued in a culture and how language is used to reflect cultural values. We can then move on to discuss some effective intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills required to build relationships with colleagues and to inform others in a workplace.

Introduction to Multicultural Dimension6:56

Power Distance2:14

Individualist and Collectivist2:22

Masculinity and Femininity3:04

Long and Short Term Orientation3:28

How cultural values affect the way we communicate6:42

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Misty So-Sum Wai-Cook
Dr
Centre for English Language Communication

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Now let's have a look at the fourth

cultural dimension, long or short term orientation.

In cultures or communities within cultures that focus primarily on short-term goals,

people tend to focus more on living from the past and now.

So, in other words, people tried to learn from the past and

they've, as they are based on the past, they may judge what is good and

bad based on what was passed down from history.

So, some sort of universal guidelines that were passed down from before.

And, they tend to follow more on the traditions.

In contrast, in long-term oriented cultures or

communities people focus on the future.

So they live for now, they make judgments on that based on

thinking about what may happen, what the consequences are in the future.

They will also judge what is good and what is bad based on

the circumstances in the now, or what may happen, the consequences in the future.

So they don't just look at a set of

guidelines that were passed down from before.

So therefore, their look is more likely that traditions are likely to change.

People will not always live based on the traditions,

they will live for what they think the consequences are in the future.

So what do you think would be the implications of having long term and

short term orientated cultures on a country's growth?

Not surprisingly, very often what you may see is that with a short-term

oriented cultures they are less willing to open up to other countries.

Whether it be for trade or for exchange of cultural ideas.

Because they are slower, they're not willing to open up.

Then you may find that those countries will experience no or

very slow economic growth.

In contrast, the long-term oriented cultures are more likely to

open up to other countries, and so they're more willing to trade and

exchange cultural ideas with other people within other countries and cultures.

You may find that those cultures have faster economic growth.

Again, let me ask you what this may mean in a workplace?

What you would expect the work behavior to be like in

a short-term oriented workplace versus a long-term oriented workplace?

You may be able to guess by now that in a short-term oriented workplace,

people are required to complete tasks based on past and now.

So in other words, they may look at what happened in the past and

focus on completing the task now.

Versus long-term oriented workplace,

where individuals would be required to complete tasks now for the future.

So, they would look ahead far more than short-term oriented workplace.

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