Cross-Cultral Scenario

Cross-Cultural Scenario

Jason Wesley, who was born in Australia, was a very mart and responsible man. His father was a businessman who always went to different countries to do business and was so busy that had not enough time to take care of him and his brother and sister. His father’s salary as a manager provided his family with a middle-class lifestyle. In order to ease father’s burdens, his mother Robin quit her job being a teacher in a community high school to do a housewife. But, in her inner heart, she was reluctant to do so. Thus she became a volunteer in spare time in her community to help disable people to study knowledge. Affected by his parents, he had been a volunteer when he was a young boy. He had a dream to travel all over the world to learn different cultural, and he also wanted to be an excellent businessman as his father were. So he chose finance as his major in University of California. After he graduated, he worked in a small investment corporation. However, he wasn’t happy, the boring life and the lower salary made him confused whether this career was what he dreamed to do. Then he made a biggest decision that he quit the job and return to school to finish his graduate degree. Although many friends did not support him, he still persisted his decision and he wanted to use his action to prove himself.

Jason was a marketing salesman for a company called Tableau Corporation Ltd. He, who was intelligent and diligent, was popular among his leaders and colleague in his company. He gained a lot of help from his father’s business experience and clients in the first two years. Depending on these and his hard work, he made a great program.

With China’s rapid development, more and more foreign companies would like to expend their business to Chinese marketing in which can bring them more business opportunities. Tableau is no exception, which made a long-term cooperation relationship with Kenny & Good that is a finance corporation in Beijing the capital of china. Jason was assigned to work in Beijing as the marketing manager on behalf of Tableau. It was a big challenge for Jason to work in China. And, finally, he accepted this job and maintained that it also was a great chance for him. That was because not only could he expand his own clients, but also he could improve his work skills, especially cooperating with foreign people. And he thought this experience could push him to a higher point in his career.

Jason arrived on Tuesday morning and was installed in a comfortable hotel in Chaoyang district. After leaving his luggage in hotel, Jason went to company and was eager to talk about what they had been doing and to begin to work. When he came to the company, there was a meeting for him in order to welcome him to cooperate with their company; another thing was to introduce the project both two companies cooperate. It took one hour to introduce two companies and their relationship, and then the holder introduced Jason to other staffs who gave him much advice lived in China and prepared many interesting gifts for him, which made him feel warm and happy. After this, he thought they would start the discussion about their recent project, which he did a lot of research and did some experiments and he heard the experts in this company had made a big achievement. So he was a little bit exciting before the seminar started. However, he found he was wrong. The next step about the meeting was some speeches launched by company’s leaders, which none of these words were related directly to the project and almost took two hours totally to do these speeches. He felt it was so boring and wastes of time because he thought these speeches were unnecessarily, and he did not know why they would like to spend too much time on these meaningless things. About the seminar, the whole atmosphere of the meeting is serious. He found that speakers in all kinds of meetings always the high ranked people, which means not all the staffs could express their own opinions to others. Jason felt it is not fair to other staffs that do not have the rights to talk about their ideas at meeting.