Management Communication, 7th Edition

Chapter 10 Intercultural Communication

DOI: 10.4324/9781003331490-37

The world you inhabit in the twenty-first century is becoming a vastly different place from the one your parents and grandparents knew as children of the twentieth century. The industrialized nations of the world are experiencing change of an unprecedented sort, and the United States is gradually but inevitably becoming different from the nation your ancestors lived and worked in. What will be different in the days ahead? Almost everything, from the food you eat to the climate you know to the technology you use as you work. The organizations that will employ you are changing, restructuring, and transforming themselves. The products and services they provide are changing, ...