Essays about: "Polychronic Culture"

Found 2 essays containing the words Polychronic Culture.

  1. 1. The Cultural Impacts On Working Conditions for Employees in the Tourism Industry : Sweden Versus Turkey

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS)

    Author : Michelle Adamsen; Izabel Belskaya; [2023]
    Keywords : Culture; Cultural Impact; High Contextual Culture; Labor Laws; Low Contextual Culture; Monochronic Culture; Polychronic Culture; Scandinavia; Sweden; The Middle East; Tourism Industry; Turkey; Working Rights;

    Abstract : Travel is an adventure into a new unexplored culture, different from what surrounds the traveler in the usual life at home. Culture is reflected not only in architecture, food, and literature but also in social relationships. How people react to everything they hear and see is based on the characteristics of their cultures. READ MORE

  3. 2. Intercultural Communication for Development : An exploratory study of Intercultural Sensitivity of the United Nations Volunteer Programme using the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity as framework

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Keisuke Taketani; [2008]
    Keywords : Communication for Development; Interculutal sensitivity; Culture; United Nations Volunteer;

    Abstract : The purpose of the study is to (1)analyze the level of intercultural sensitivity ofUnited Nations Volunteer (UNV) volunteers in terms of interpersonal communication ina multicultural working environment; (2) explore how UNV volunteers interact andcommunicate in a multicultural environment at community level by developing acognitive structure to understand differences in culture and; (3) identify the level of intercultural sensitivity of the UNV volunteers.This study is intended to make a contribution to the research on Communicationfor Development from the perspective of Intercultural Communication, particularly byusing the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) as a framework to analyze the Intercultural experiences of a number of UNV volunteers. READ MORE