The Impact of Confucianism on the Collaboration of Chinese and North Americans

The Impact of Confucianism on the Collaboration of Chinese and North Americans Table of Content Abstract 1 Chapter One Introduction 2 1.1 Background of this paper 2 1.2 Aim of this paper 2 1.3 Structure of this paper 3 Chapter Two Literature Review 4 2.1 Culture 4 2.2 Confucianism 6 2.3 Dimensions of conflict in the collaboration of Chinese and North Americans 8 Chapter Three Methodology 12 3.1 Research Questions 12 3.2 Meta-analysis 12 Chapter Four Study Analysis 12 4.1 The influence of Confucianism 12 4.2 Aspects of conflictual behaviors in the process of collaboration 15 Chapter Five Implications of this study 21 5.1 Confucianism’s influence on Chinese is changeable 21 5.2 Culture’s impact on people lies in depth 21 5.3 Management system from different culture backgrounds has influenced people’s behaviors 22 Chapter Six Conclusion 27 Bibliography 27 Abstract At present, owing to the rapid development of science and new technology, information systems have made a greater progress than before, which makes intercultural communication easier. Moreover owing to the explosion of the world's population and the need of economic globalization, intercultural communication is more and more common. Therefore, the study to intercommunication is very necessary. Confucianism is the symbol of eastern culture. Its influence on people's ideology can't be overestimated even worldwide. Nowadays, in all over the world, especially, in southeast-Asia a lot of scholars are studying Confucianism with great enthusiasm. It is believed that Confucianism is a dose of effective medicine to cure the western social problems that have caused by machine civilization. Owing to the fact that Confucianism involves nearly every field in our live, the dissertation attempts to have an insight of Confucianism's impact on collaboration between Chinese and North Americans in intercultural communication in the light of its influence on values. Keywords: intercultural communication, Confucianism, working staff, collaboration Chapter One Introduction