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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Business communication"”.
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English as a lingua franca: developing a tool to improve international business communication
In this project, I investigated the challenges of communication in international teams that use English as their lingua franca in a business setting. The project’s intention was to develop a training or coaching product (the doctoral artefact) that would help native speakers of English adjust …
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Educating for the future : a critical discourse analysis of the field of intercultural business communication
… academic field of enquiry called Intercultural Business Communication as it is pursued in the context of the Germany higher education system. Its purpose is twofold: Firstly, it attempts to bring to light and debate the actual validity claims made by these authors in respect to socio-economic …
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Educating for the future: a critical discourse analysis of the academic field of intercultural business communication
… academic field of enquiry called Intercultural Business Communication as it is pursued in the context of the Germany higher education system. Its purpose is twofold: Firstly, it attempts to bring to light and debate the actual validity claims made by these authors in respect to socio-economic …
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Ethical Issues in Business Communication: A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Japanese and US Students
… beliefs and behaviors relating to ethical business decisions. The study assessed the extent to which three of Hofstede's (1984) cultural indexes related to three ethical classifications of Vitell, Nwachukwu, and Barnes (1993). Participants were 79 US and 33 Japanese students attending West …
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Text and Context in International Trade Communication: A Case Study of Email Business Communication Among Professionals in the Asia-Pacific Region
… text and context in international trade email communication. The approach combines analysis of communicators' email texts with conceptual analysis of their introspections while they are engaged in communicative situations and their retrospective reflections on their interactions. The study uses …
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Einflussfaktoren und Wirkungen der Unternehmenskommunikation auf den Unternehmenserfolg im Anlagen- und Systemgeschäft - theoretische Konzeption und empirische Evaluierung
… the factors of influence and the impact of business communication on business success in the industrial plant and systems market. To cover all relevant aspects the topic is dealt with on three levels: Level one focuses on business markets in general, level two on the investment goods market …
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Business Communications in the Nineties
Marketing and business communication.
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Assignment sequencing in professional communication courses: the search for an innovative pedagogy
… than an exchange of complicated theories, among business communication professors is a rare one. It is not that professors in the discipline don't crave such a thing; rather their peer juries don't believe it to be a respectable quest, one weighted with scholarly worth.· Seldom do articles …
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Occurrence of plagiarism in the writing of international graduate business students and its detection by SafeAssign
… of plagiarism in essays of 23 international business students written for an ESL business communication course. The students’ papers were checked for plagiarism manually and by SafeAssign, a plagiarism detection platform within Blackboard’s compass2g. The findings indicate that the two most …
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The construction of a Business English curriculum, relevant to the workplace, and making use of word processing in place of handwriting
… expressed in many areas of the society that businesses must modernize their practices and focus more on international trade and communication. Two important components of the changes required are better use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and better use of the English …
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The potential business impacts of Semantic Web for system integration
This thesis presents research about the potential business impacts of the Semantic Web. The concept of the Semantic Web is an expansion of the Web for computers, enabling them to comprehend the meaning of information. In addition, Semantic Web Services (SWS), the emerging convergence of Web …
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PRESENTING IN THE PRESENT: PUBLIC SPEAKING IN ONLINE COURSES
… measures to determine whether face-to-face Business Communication students’ presentation skills improved more than, less than, or the same as those of online Business Communication students. This design enabled measurement of the dependent variable of presentation skill improvement, in …
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The influence of career-related motivation on academic success
… and GPA. Grouped by major college, only business, communication, engineering, and undeclared students displayed significant relationships between career motivation and GPA.</p>
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BUILDING BRIDGES FROM CURRENT ENGLISH CONTENT TO AN IMAGINED ENGLISH FUTURE
… English vocabulary for the fast-paced global business environment is highly dependent on the imagined future of a business major; he or she must imagine in what context the business career will take place: what sphere of activity will be involved, in which scenarios of language usage, and what …
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Global leadership and the development of intercultural competency in U.S. multinational corporations
… held by intercultural academia and the business community. The research approach was interdisciplinary: combining adult learning theory (self-directed and transformational learning), international business communication and leadership, systems thinking, organizational development and …
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A descriptive study of perceived and assessed business letter writing problems of bankers in branch locations
The study investigated business letter writing problems within the banking profession. It identified difficulties in letter writing aspects that bankers perceive; and it investigated the relationship of those perceived difficulties to assessed deficiency aspects in letters the bankers had written. …
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Incorporating prefabrication processes into building information modelling
Conventional business procedures are increasingly being replaced by dynamic and revolutionized growth due to the integration of Information and Communication technologies to meet changing business requirements. For survival in this highly competitive field of construction, the adaptation of new …
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An Analysis of a Nonverbal Training Program's Effect Upon Business Communications Students' Sensitivity to Nonverbal Facial Expressions
… a specific training program in nonverbal facial communication for business communications students affects their sensitivity to nonverbal facial cues. A secondary problem was to determine if there was a difference between those groups trained in nonverbal facial communication and their …
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Beyond Words: A Post-Process Business Writing Pedagogy
… to identify shortcomings in contemporary business writing pedagogies that result in students being insufficiently prepared for the writing challenges of their post-college careers and, to develop an alternative pedagogy that addresses these problems. To achieve these ends I review the …
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Language and translation at work: a grounded theory approach to B2B customer service in an Irish-based multilingual team
… to the translating carried out in international businesses by multilingual staff or non-professional translators and interpreters (NPIT). Acknowledging the translational nature of multilingual communication, this thesis aims to explore the role of translation as part of the cross-cultural and …
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