Inter Culture Communication as a subject and its implications...

I particularly wanted to write about my experience of one of my first papers in MBA curriculum,'Inter Culture Communication'. This paper was taught was by Dr Bruce Stening, Dean of our Beijing Campus and a phenomenal person.Dr Bruce took us through an experience that I feel is one of the most important takes of an International MBA.We were put in a group of five people, deliberately made as diverse as it could get and asked to work on a project together.I had an Indonesian girl, an Argentinian, a Hungarian and a French-Belgian in my group.

We were made to do a lot of class assignments in the group along with the group project. Working for the group project was initially difficult as people had their own set of ideas about how to go for the project etc etc. My group became a cohesive one pretty soon and we had a ball working together.However in many groups, there were a lot of disagreement and adjustment issues.We did a role-play as part of our presentation for the project.Many groups presented videos as part of their presentations, which were so funny that we actually had a get together watching these videos over beer.There was a lot to learn and share in this project and I feel quite enriched with this experience.

In essence this paper provided a real time experience of working in a cross-cultural scenario with almost unknown people. The bottomline is one has to be open-minded and ready to learn and unlearn to be successful in a cross-cultural setup.