Two-day courses will delve into deeper issues, such as the social conventions of high and low context cultures.
The results indicated that high context people (HCP) had better communication effectiveness in comprehending nonverbal clues than low context people (LCP), while LCP had better communication effectiveness in verbal communication than their counterparts.
Finally, those who scored low on all three context variables were categorized as working in a low context.
Those who scored high on any single variable and low on the two remaining variables were categorized as working in a moderately low context.
Communication (high-context or low-context), 5.
Browaeys and Price follow Hall and Hall (1990) in distinguishing between low- and high-context communication; low-context messages and tasks are highly detailed and explicit, while in high-context communication, much is left unsaid in order to avoid confrontation.
Employees from high-context cultures may feel threatened by a low-context-oriented manager who gives them explicit responsibilities and detailed schedules, while low-context employees may feel unsure and badly led by a high-context manager who seems more concerned with preserving harmony.
There was no statistically significant difference in recall of information from high- and low-context conditions between the American and the Korean subjects.
Time focus (monochronic/polychronic), Structure (individualism or collectivism), Power (hierarchy and equality), Communication (high-context or low-context), Time orientation (past, present and future), Competitiveness (competition), Space (public or private), Activity (action: doing or being).
Online, though, all we see are a few projections of those mammal brains, generally in the form of hastily constructed, low-context text and images … as mediated and amplified by the outrage machines, those timeline algorithms which think that "engagement" is the highest goal to which one can possibly aspire online.
