The Importance Of Cultural Aspects Of Communication

Written response to Gladwell reading

Part 1: Using complete sentences and paragraphs, respond to the Gladwell article. Use the following questions to help you create your response.

Do you agree or disagree with Gladwell’s assertion that cultural aspects of communication play a critical role in some industries? Explain why, using readings, research, and/or your own experience to support your argument.

Explore how the cultural aspects of communication might affect software engineering. Think about all of the different tasks involved in creating software, as well as the large number of globally and culturally diverse software teams.

I agree with Gladwell 's assertion that cultural aspects of communication plays a critical role in some industries. The contrasting examples presented in Gladwell 's article, clearly displayed the need of understanding of the

In Saipan crash, David Costa, the first officer kept of mitigating about the emergency to the ATC and failed to mention the word “emergency” to the ATC, even being repeated told by the captain, and the another incident like, both the pilots assuming that the ATC 's message, “Cleared to Kennedy airport” as ATC was jumping them to the heard of the queue, in front of the dozens of others planes circling Kennedy. In fact, they weren 't. They were just being added to the end of the line. Both these incidents due to cultural background difference of the pilots, resulted in the

Be specific.

For example: Have you ever had an experience (work or personal) where you needed to adjust your communication to accommodate the audience’s preferred power distance level? If so, please describe it. How did you know you needed to adjust your communication? Was the communication successful? What was your personal reaction to having to adjust – was it easy or hard?