Question

When kyle goes on a business trip overseas, he arrives ten minutes early to the meeting, but the person he is meeting keeps getting interrupted and makes kyle wait almost two hours before starting the meeting. kyle is impatient and doesn't understand the ______ nature of the culture.

a. pseudochronic
b. monochronic
c. polychronic
d. chronically late?

Answer 1

Kyle is impatient and doesn't understand the "polychronic" nature of the culture.

A few societies are customarily monochronic. In such a culture, time is thought of as being linear. Individuals are relied upon to complete one thing at once, and they won't endure delay or intrusions. In polychronic societies, time is thought of as being cyclical. Polychronic societies jump at the chance to do different things in the same time. A supervisor's office in a polychronic culture commonly has an open entry, a ringing telephone and a meeting all going ahead in the meantime.