JOURNEY TO SHARAHAD

JOURNEY TO SHARAHAD

Mizar is a marketing Inc., a company from Sharahad that needs to meet with the American Computer company for a business deal. Because they make high sales of their computers across the world, the deal is to do business with them to help distribute our computers. However, they will be required to sell about 10,000 units of our computers annually, and we will grant them a commission of 15%. Am an American representative chosen to go to sharahad to complete the deal if we can agree with them? Although I am not much aware of the sharahad culture that pertains to business activity, I hope they know how to speak English, and we will understand each other.

However, during the meeting, I experienced a lot of cultural differences with the sharahads’. Their office suites and conference rooms are well furnished with both traditional and modern fixtures. Their culture displays a very different pattern of communication and values. They believe in their ability and competence by speaking expressively and making a close personal relationship with others. They maintain eye contact with the people they are talking to, and this shows that they are very keen and concentrate on what someone is telling them. It gives them courage and builds a beat trust to someone else talking to them. But the problem is that they get into personal matters more to understand about your lifestyle instead of business-oriented discussion. Also, in their conversations, they were making a lot of topics, including those that are not even related to the topic of discussion; they talk a lot involving personal information switching back and forth, thus keeping the discussion look animated.

One thing I learned in their culture is that they don’t speculate what might happen in the future in the business scenario. They do not make future predictions in their business operations but assume things are always good at any time in business. But future speculations are very much important because there is still downfalls and growth in the market, this scenario is one of their greatest weakness. Additionally, bragging is a taboo in their culture, but they are also very humble, and they make use of nonverbal aspects of communication through their degree of enthusiasm. They speak with a loud voice and usually maintain proximity and physical contact.

On the other side, the Americans also have their culture, and they have their office suites cool embedded with modern culture. They also maintain eye contact when discussing issues. This helps in improving the level of concentration, builds more confidence, and makes the people talking be more believable. Also, they are good at establishing a personal relationship with their partners before any business deals to build trust with each other. Although they do not get into personal matters when discussing business-oriented talk. Unlike the sharahads’, Americans usually go straight to the point when making agreements in business. They don’t hide their suggestions. This is important as it gives a clear viewpoint on whether they can agree or not. Additionally, the aspect of future speculations is on the hands of Americans whenever they conduct business.

Generally, the cultural differences that have been clearly shown is the personal space expectations, even though both Americans and sharahads’ maintain close distance to each other when communicating business issues, they proceed with a handshake after they have agreed on the deal, but for the case of the sharahads’ they put their hands at the shoulders of their partner after the deal is sealed. In terms of context and understanding, the Americans have low context and knowledge, they need to be briefed about what the business entails and expectations which are always direct to the point, the Sharahads’ have high context, they give out or required detailed explanation for them to understand how the deal can be made and the objective of the business. Those with a low context in business talks usually give out their specifics and direct to the point like the Americans. In contrast, others like Sharahads’ have high context, and they expect and give more background information when talking.

As I wind up, it is essential to understand the cultural differences before undertaking any business talk. This can be easily achieved through close interactions with people from different cultural backgrounds to prevent more issues that may arise as a result of cultural differences in businesses.