When your team is spread across different cities—or even continents—it’s easy for a new hire to feel like they’re joining a ...

High-context communicators tend to expect to be noticed for their hard work, sacrifice, and achievement, without ever having to verbalize themselves.

What's the difference between a high-context and a low-context language? If that's a stumper, I hope you're not a graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management.And I certainly hope you ...

High-context cultures are less direct and more contextual, but relationships require communication so both parties can feel heard. Advertisement.

Any gap between countries on this spectrum can lead to miscommunication.Notably, t he British, despite being more low-context than many cultures, are far more high-context than the Americans. Thus ...

Asian countries like Japan, China, India and Singapore, by contrast, are “high-context,” relying more on tone, facial expressions, environment and situation to understand what is being said.

Although Chinese are assumed to be in a high-context culture, Yamashina (2018) found that Chinese people are viewed as more direct speakers i.e., low-context cultural communicators by Japanese.

Read between the lines. Ho explains that the United States is a “low-context” culture—meaning that communication is often direct—but that many Asian cultures are “high-context,” which requires more ...