9.5 波兰商务中的跨文化交际陷阱在线视频

Hello welcome back

After learning all about Polish business

intercultural communication knowledge

in the previous lectures

we hope you are going to enjoy

successful contact

with your Polish counterparts

Let’s have a game and please guess

if the followings are true or false

1 It is acceptable to call the Polish

Eastern European

True or false

2 You can greet over a threshold

in Poland

True or false

3 It is not useful to know

only a few words of Polish

when you are on your trip to Poland

True or false

4 You’d better eat less

when you go to a Polish dinner

True or false

Pitfall 1

Tell or call the Polish Eastern European

When you say that

you won’t make any friends

If you look at a map

you’ll see that

geographically Poland along with countries

like Germany the Czech Republic

Slovakia Hungary

and Austria are actually

Central European countries

and they prefer to be called

Central European countries

rather than Eastern European countries

Pitfall 2

Greet over a threshold

Don’t shake hands on the threshold

or cross it to say goodbye

as you would at the door

The extremists

don’t say goodbye at the door

including shaking hands

across the threshold

because people think

it will spell bad luck

People really don’t like it

so either let’s pick your side

When shaking hands or saying goodbye

are you at the door

or are you outside the door

Pitfall 3

Skip out on learning a few Polish

Never underestimate

how a few words of Polish

can help you on your trip to Poland Polish

words to know

such as thank you in Polish is

Dziekuje

If you know a little Polish

it can really be an eye opener

Pitfall 4

Skip out on learning a few Polish

When you go to a Polish dinner

there will be plenty of food there

so be sure to go on an empty stomach

or your hosts

will be a little disgusted

if you don’t push yourself out

and sample all the different dishes

they have on offer

That is all for business culture of Poland

Thank you for your learning