What Does Cross Cultural Training Encompass?
Other than appreciating the rudiments of an alien language, cross cultural training also increases an employees sensitivities to the values and ethos of another culture. And before one can appreciate another culture, an employee first has to begin understanding their own roots and cultural heritage. Once they can have grasped the subtleties of their own culture they might be able to examine and understand the overviews of other cultures as well. For example, imagine an all American team working on-site in another country which has a very different cultural ethos in comparison to their native country, for instance Greece. How will this team function or rather, how will they dysfunction if they are unaware of a simple Grecian culture the Greeks indicate a no or a negative while moving the head upwards? Now imagine if a large enterprise has outsourced a bulk of their knowledge processes to a country widely acknowledged as the back-office of the world, India. How will work ever get done wi
