第1个回答 2009-03-24
1 and negotiations: correct dealing with cultural differences
International business negotiation course includes four stages: one is to greet, about some of the topics and irrelevant, Second is the exchange of information and work, Three is to persuade, 4 and finally reached an agreement made concessions. Before entering a formal business negotiation, people generally for business negotiation process is a kind of expectations. This often affect negotiations are expected in control and negotiation strategy selection. Because the negotiators from different cultures in verbal and nonverbal behavior, values and thinking, make decisions they hold is endless also and same, expectations and different expectations and will cause the negotiator in each stage of the negotiation takes time and energy differences.
(1) greeting
Here's to establish good relationship or greet one another with the negotiation and business ", "all activities irrelevant to understand customer, the purpose is the background and interest, thus to choose appropriate follow-up provide important clues to communicate. Cultural differences is beautiful, American culture "to distinguish between", and the main interest for substantive issues. Thus, in the American businessman, flowers and talk about the irrelevant or foreign rivals, but little time with work related information communication is more quickly. Americans will discuss some of the business negotiation with unrelated topics, such as the weather, family, sports, politics, but they do more for the friendly or polite, usually in five or six minutes later will enter the next stage. Instead of value in relationships in Chinese culture, but often at this stage spend a lot of time and cost to build comfortable, personal relationship, and then talk about business.
(2) exchange information
International business negotiations of information communication often present various incomplete characteristics.
One is the language differences and behavioral differences caused by the information understand error. Average person can understand the same speaker of the cultural background of the 80-90% of speech content - this fact means have 10-20% of the information being misunderstood or listen to the wrong. As you can imagine, when a person speaking a second language, misunderstanding or listen to the wrong percentage will rise sharply. And when the second language ability is limited, and even whole session may all be misunderstood. The cultural differences in behavior is often difficult to realize, concealed. When foreign negotiator produce different nonverbal signals with different cultural background, the negotiation rivals easily misunderstood these signals, but also realize the error occurred.
2 dispute between language communication skills of asymmetric information generated. Sometimes in order to collect information from the negotiation rivals,
Can adopt "one-way" negotiation strategy - provides information for foreign competitors. Due to the different cultural differences exist objectively and communication skills, such as silent, gazing word frequency and period of time difference. Especially when these differences are relatively obvious, information asymmetry is naturally produced. In comparison, the French, easy to find, Chinese communication skills in word and the lower frequency, but for a long time, and silence French negotiator seems unwilling lonely, often in silence to fill these silent when each time.
Three is caused by the difference of the value of information feedback speed and asymmetric content. On one hand, different cultures have different ways of using a single time or use: the use of time. A single time USES emphasize "only when special" and "speed", north americans, Swiss, Germany and Scandinavian has such characteristics. While many time using a multi-purpose "means", such as the Middle East and Latin America culture has such characteristics. In many ways, and make people relaxed under the weak, the time schedule and late concept and the expected information feedback delay. On the other hand, different cultures have different types of buyers and sellers ChuiZhiXing: horizontal and relationship. ChuiZhiXing buyer and seller relationship, and implicit and face to the buyer and seller horizontal relationship depends on the buyer's credit, pay attention to direct and speak truth.
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