Cross Cultural Awareness Quiz

Hannah Spruce

August 4, 2016

5 min read

Test Your Cross-Cultural Awareness

As the world becomes increasingly connected through technology and travel, modern businesses are becoming more and more multicultural. If your business has an international outlook or staff from different backgrounds, working together respectfully is beneficial for business. What's more, a diverse cultural team can help to open doors for your business and bring insights that help your business operate in foreign markets. So if you're setting your business sights abroad, it’s vital that you’re aware of how other cultures conduct business. Cultural awareness can help you to communicate better, avoid misunderstandings and work successfully with people the world over. Test your knowledge with our quiz below.

What are the potential benefits of having good cultural awareness?

Fewer misunderstandings and conflicts

Increased likelihood of your business working well in an international market

Increased levels of respect between you and business contacts

All of the above

Correct! Wrong!

What is 'ethnocentricity'?

When all cultures become central to how a business operates

When the views and standards of one culture are given priority over others

It isn't a real word

When a business only has one ethnicity working there

Correct! Wrong!

You're hosting a conference with Indian and Saudi-Arabian business people all attending. Some are Hindu and Muslim clients. In what areas should you consider special arrangements when you're organising the conference?

Dietary requirements

Exercise breaks

Sleeping arrangements

Proximity to shops

Correct! Wrong!

You have a very exciting business opportunity in China, and your boss is bringing you and one more of your colleagues along. This is an important meeting and you want to get it right. Which of these would be a faux pas in Chinese company?

Greeting the youngest person first

Using their honorific titles and last names

Shaking hands

Greeting the most senior business associate first

Correct! Wrong!

If you're the manager of a diverse and international team, how might you accommodate the needs of some of your employees?

Allowing breaks for prayer time

A strict dress code

Free lunches

Providing tea and coffee

Correct! Wrong!

Test Your Cross-Cultural Awareness

Want to learn more about the importance of cultural diversity in the workplace, how to encourage it and how to manage it? Take a look at our Cross-Cultural Awareness Training.