Deal with Culture Shock: The impacts of cultural shock and skills for coping with it. A Skill Path created by Nigel Ewington to approach multicultural contexts.

Working in a multicultural context means facing different behaviors, working approaches, languages, and so on. Many people get overwhelmed by these differences, and experience culture shock.

This course shows what people go through and how best to cope in business settings.

Expected outcomes

The reactions to culture shock

An awareness of how culture shock affects our working relationships

The key skills for working across cultures

Stronger cross-cultural working relationships

Developed by

Nigel
Ewington

University of Cambridge

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Available languages

English
French
Brazilian Portuguese
German
Simplified Chinese
Dutch

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