Search results for "Business Communication"

A market of accents

2009

This paper describes the cultural semantics of internet courses in American accent. Such courses are offered by corporate providers to specific groups of customers: people in search of success in the globalized business environment. The core of such courses is an order of indexicality which stresses uniformity and homogeneity, producing an invisible accent that replaces existing ‘foreign’ (i.e. authentic, biographic) accents. It is a new form of commodified dialectology, which differs quite substantially from common state and academic attitudes towards dialects and accents. The procedures used by such private providers are instances of language policing aimed at the infinitely small stuff o…

L'éthique appliquée à la communication professionnelle

2018

Ce numéro propose une exploration des enjeux éthiques tels qu'ils sont présents aujourd'hui dans différents domaines professionnels du secteur de la communication. Dans l'opinion publique actuelle ces deux termes (« communication », comme métier et activité professionnelle, et « éthique ») semblent parfois opposés : nous rappelions déjà dans le numéro 5 quelques données concernant la méfiance que la communication professionnelle inspire, à l'époque des spin doctors et, plus récemment, des fake news et des faits alternatifs. En réalité, l'éthique est un enjeu de toujours et de toutes les sphères de la vie humaine. C'est inévitable donc que la communication professionnelle soit traversée de f…

Lietišķā komunikācija starp kultūrām: komunikācijas barjeras

2020

Mūsdienās globālā ekonomika sniedz ļoti dažādas iespējas starptautiskai sadarbībai. Šie procesi ir savstarpēji saistīti, izmantojot saziņu kā instrumentu pušu savstarpējo kontaktu nodibināšanai. Pētījuma mērķis bija analizēt biznesa komunikācijas principus dažādās kultūrās un noteikt komunikācijas barjeru pārvarēšanas iespējamās metodes. Pirmos starpkultūru komunikācijas analīzes pētījumus ieviesa Hofstede (1960), Hall (1976), Bennet (1993) un citi. Pētījumā izmantota kvalitatīvā pētījuma pieeja. Kā galveno metodi primāro informācijas avotu iegūšanai izmantoja padziļinātu interviju. Pētījuma secinājumi parādīja, ka veiksmīgas starpkultūru komunikācijas pamatprincipi ir saistīti ar vispārēju…

Entretien : pour une intégration des datadéontologues dans les équipes communication

2018

The Textbook Didn’t Mention That: An Intercultural Experiential Exercise in Business Communication

2019

Although many global MBA programs teach intercultural communication, what happens when the method for teaching that concept becomes mostly experiential? To answer that question, the authors took two very similar classes, both composed of working adults, a Business Communications course in Germany and a Managerial Communications course in the United States, and joined the students into a project that spread over several weeks and had a purposely vague deliverable. While the students believed that the policies and presentations were the most important aspect of the project, the actual aim of this exercise was for them to learn about intercultural communication by doing it. Based on weekly de…

The difficulty of applying exclusion criteria in ethical portfolios

2018

A main problem for socially responsible investors is deciding which companies should be included in their investment portfolio. Small investors may decide not to invest in companies they know are not behaving responsibly. Therefore, discredited companies will not be included in their portfolios, as they will understand those companies cannot be defined as ethical. To implement this procedure properly and apply it to big portfolios is a complex exercise which requires big amounts of information and the problems faced by investors applying such exclusion criteria to select their portfolio.

New perspective of learner-centered education in nowadays didactics

2017

An approach to education that is based on the educational context in which the student comes and track progress in achieving the learning objectives. The learner-centred education learning places the responsibility on the shoulders of students, while the teacher takes responsibility for facilitating the education process. The approach tends to be unique, flexible, competency-based methodology and not always varied in time and space constrained. Teaching will have complex changes, so if, traditionally, it is just a business communication / transmission of knowledge, actual perspectives follows specifically aims in organizing and managing learning processes. According to the researchers in th…

Conversation autour de l’éthique en pratique : une carrière de communicante sous le signe d’une réflexion et de préoccupations éthiques

2017

Mobile commerce: core business technology and intelligent support

2005

Mobile commerce is an emerging field in its early stages, but there are a number of ideas of what is going to constitute the key success factors for the actors in the global m-commerce arena. This arena is already growing diversified with a number of application areas, which are growing in different directions and at different paces. We understand already that B2B, B2E, B2C and P2P will produce rather different types of applications, because the propositions for value-added products and services are quite different. This is probably one of the reasons why the hunt for the “mobile commerce killer applications” has been in vain so far.

Multilingualism in Finnish companies – selected results of the LangBuCom-project

2017

The research project “Languages in international business communication, LangBuCom” addresses language needs and use in Finnish companies, from the perspective of internationalization. Today, multilingual situations with two or three languages are normal, although they entail challenges. nonPeerReviewed