Question

The executives from Carlo Foods, United States, are in Japan to negotiate with Jeong, the head of a local investment firm. While Jeong listens to their plans, he realizes that there are considerable amounts of calculation errors in the market statistics involved in the plan. He starts showing signs of impatience and folds his hands, with a frown on his face. The executives realize that something is wrong and are confused about it. Jeong most likely belongs to a :_____________.

1. Low contact culture
2. High contact culture
3. High power distance culture
4. Polychronic culture

Answer 1

B. High-context Culture

Step-by-step explanation:

High-context Culture is a term that explains a social interaction that mainly involves implicit communication, where by the individuals communicate through contextual elements such as body languages, tone of the voice etc.

Hence, in this case, Jeong is using contextual elements to communicate his impatience by folding his hands with a frown on his face.

Therefore, Jeong belongs to a High-Context Culture person.

Answer 2

4.Polychronic culture

Step-by-step explanation:

Polychronic cultures can be define as the ability of a person to perform or carried out different tasks at the same time.

This type of poeple like to do various or multiple things at the same time or simultaneously without been tired because they are used to it.

Polychronic culture in order words can also be the ability to multi task and they tend to be impatience when they are been force or told to do a specific task due to the fact that they are not use to carrying out one tasks at the same time but multiple tasks.

Which is Jeong starts to show signs of impatience and folds his hands, with a frown on his face.

Therefore according to the scenario Jeong most likely belongs to a POLYCHRONIC CULTURE