Intercultural sensitization for Eastern Asia

In contact with partners, employees and colleagues in Eastern Asia, in negotiations again and again misunderstandings come up concerning agreements or anyhow the Eastern Asian's behaviour is a mystery - in spite of good knowledge of foreign languages on both sides. Among others this results from diverging aims in life and the different significance contributed to personal relations. In how far are emotions shown? In addition to this contrasting attitudes play an important role, e.g. with regard to individuals - collective, conflict - harmony and objective - time.
 

In spite of national cultural peculiarities we can define common cultural standards for the countries China, Japan and Korea. With help of general explanatory principles the participants will learn to understand and to estimate motivations and values, on which actions of members of the Eastern Asian culture are based. The participants will be able to recognize and to predict expectations about their own and other people's behaviour in a better way. Finally they will be capable of identifying intercultural fields of conflict in time and of transferring their intentions more successfully.
 

Cultural differences and intercultural competence
Recognizing one's own cultural mould,significance of culture as a system of orientation, cultural standards and guide dimensions of cultural differences
   
Culturally adequate company with partners from Eastern Asia
Central cultural standards in Eastern Asia and their historico-cultural anchor (among others orientation towards hierarchies, social harmony, orientation in groups and relations, concept of "loss of face"), establishing behavioural strategies for the daily work, recognizing fields of conflict in time and handling them in a constructive way, "Do's and don't's" in communication, possible prejudices towards members of the German culture