Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to do the following:
- Explain and identify examples for each of Hofstede’s five primary cultural dimensions
- Discuss the process of accommodation through convergence or divergence
- Explain how the threshold for anxiety and uncertainty can either impair or motivate communication
- Predict intercultural conflict due to cultural differences in conflict management
- Compare and contrast major theoretical approaches to intercultural communication
- Provide systematic understanding of a professional situation by applying theories of intercultural communication