Comments on: Cultural Awareness

By: rens

rens — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:37:09 +0000

This is so very true. I see the weirdest training out here. How about Guanxi training? WTF? Yes you read it corectly. As if there is any difference with the good old boys networks we have created back home? Another one: training as to how to deal with “face”. Wow as if that is something typically Chinese. If anyone needs all these workshops here he or she is not going to succeed as they seem to have skipped a package of social skills in their development that would have made them succesful back home. But luckily there is a whole bunch of esoteric training BS and relaxation therapy training as well, some might even be useful.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:25:53 +0000

here here! or is that hear hear!…. (friggin english on the blink)

as a headhunter, i see this maxim all to often…

assholes lose people all the time..

little emperors, temper losers, dim disposition types, and the whole gamut of maladjusted anger types.

and people like working for friendly caring nice bosses .. no mystery there… will even take a cut in salary for the better working environment.

By: FOARP

FOARP — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:52:31 +0000

Too true, I speak Chinese but otherwise behave pretty much as I would in an ordinary office back home. There’s no excuse for behaving like an arsehole, but being overly culturally sensitive can allow others to take liberties they would otherwise not be able to get away with.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:20:26 +0000

LOL. I’m working on the hand waving. I tried speaking loudly but it just gave me a sore throat.

By: Will Lewis

Will Lewis — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:13:32 +0000

But Stan, it’s just so easy to be an asshole. Especially when you remember that the mono-culture of a communist country results in the production of only a single personality type: the kind you have to wave your hands in the air and speak really loudly at.