Case Analysis 2

Case Analysis 2 How Much Is Hard Work? A team of four Chinese from a large prestigious organization was in Honolulu for ten days to meet with six American colleagues from several different US universities. The ten scholars were getting together to finish up a project that they had been working on together for more than three years. The data had been collected, with great effort in several villages in central China. The Chinese team had been tireless and super-humanly patient in working out every problem so that the data collection had been extremely successful. The researchers had been working separately for nearly a year on analysis, reports and papers based on their data. The Americans felt very lucky to have obtained the financial and institutional support to give the group an opportunity to get together one last time – this time in the US – to read each other’s papers, work out problems with the analysis of data, fill in missing bits of information that “the other side” had. They were to meet for ten days in Honolulu. The Chinese delegation arrived on Friday morning and was installed in a comfortable, inexpensive hotel in Waikiki. When the Americans arrived last in the afternoon everyone was eager to talk about what they had been doing and to begin work. They met for dinner and got right down to business at the home of one of the researchers, who had recently taken a job at the University of Hawaii. Since everyone was tired from traveling, they quit at ten o’clock, but on Saturday morning they were back at work at nine. At one o’clock, the Chinese were becoming very distracted. The interpreter, Yuan Bing, a Chinese who had been in the US about six years and was married to an American, suggested that everyone break for lunch, but he was ignored. The Americans called out for pizza at two and kept arguing, writing, calculating, and discussing straight through the late meal. At seven, the Chinese were sent back to their hotel at their request; the Americans didn’t get back to the hotel until ten. Sunday was, as planned, another workday. The Chinese participated actively in the discussion in the morning, and after lunch, which at Yuan Bing’s urging was served by one o’clock. By six, however, the Chinese were anxious to return to their hotel, though the Americans were equally anxious to keep working. On Monday morning, the Chinese announced that they were taking the afternoon off. The Americans were rather annoyed, since they felt pressured to get as much as possible accomplished in the short time they had together, but they agreed to arrange a car for the Chinese. The next two days the Chinese worked hard and cheerfully all morning and into the evening, though they insisted on taking off a full hour for lunch right at noon, and another for dinner promptly at six, even when they were in the middle of something. The Americans lunched on doughnuts and fruit provided at the conference center and kept on working. The interpreter could sense tension and resentment building between the two groups. Finally, on Wednesday morning, the Chinese told the interpreter to announce that after Friday at noon they were not working anymore, that they were going to spend the last 48 hours sightseeing. The Americans were clearly dismayed, and protested. Yuan Bing decided it was time to step outside his role of interpreter and intervene. (Source: Linell Davis, Doing Culture, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1999, p203.) Questions: 1.How can Yuan Bing explain the behavior of the Chinese team to the Americans? 2.How can Yuan Bing explain the behavior of the American team to the Chinese? 3.Why didn’t Yuan Bing do something sooner to prevent this problem? 4.What could he and others do to improve the situation? 亲爱的同学们, 大家好! 为了避免有些同学直接从同学处拷 案例 全员育人导师制案例信息技术应用案例心得信息技术教学案例综合实践活动案例我余额宝案例 而不去看做 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 要求,故将要求直接附在题目后面。大家在做题时,原题不需复制上交,只交你的回答即可。 要求还是和上次一样,案例 分析 定性数据统计分析pdf销售业绩分析模板建筑结构震害分析销售进度分析表京东商城竞争战略分析 要分三块内容1)提出案例中存在的问题;2)分析原因(尽量用所学理论;当然除理论外,如果案例中有所涉及,也可以结合一些政治历史经济等方面的知识进行分析);3)提出解决问题的建议 上次的作业批改后,发现了以下两个主要问题: 1)有些同学的回答过于简短。毕竟这是一个案例分析,我给出的问题也是为了帮助你来分析这个案例的,仅仅一句话应该无法解释清楚一个案例,因此还是建议大家直接写成essay的形式,如果不写成essay形式,也一定要把问题分析清楚。 2)分析问题及提出解决问题的建议都过于宽泛。在分析为什么会出现这样问题的时候,有些同学仅仅是给出“cultural difference”这样的回答,但这个原因可以用来分析任何一个跨文化交际案例,因此不够具体和详细。同理,在解决建议的时候,有些同学仅仅说“mutual understanding”,同样也是可以用来解决任何案例,也太过宽泛。因此在分析时,要具体说明到底是什么差异,比如有些同学就提出根据Hofstede的理论,有个人主义集体主义这个维度的差别,然后具体结合案例分析,这样就很好。在建议方面,也要具体针对案例中出现的人提出,比如A如果怎么做会更好,B可以怎么怎么做,诸如此类。 案例分析最能检验大家对理论的理解和掌握情况,这个课虽然有很多理论,但不要求大家背理论,包括考试也没有太多要求大家死记硬背的东西。但也可以说有更高的要求,就是要求大家能够理解,并将理论灵活运用到案例分析当中。所以 书 关于书的成语关于读书的排比句社区图书漂流公约怎么写关于读书的小报汉书pdf 还是要去看滴!也可以告诉大家,期中考试也是考案例分析,分析的步骤还有思路和我们作业都一样,因此希望大家作业认真完成,有什么不懂的可以随时来问我哈! Best, Shirley 继续阅读