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Teams make workers happier by empowering them to shape their own jobs. Teams increase efficiency by eliminating layers of management, opening lines of communication and increasing interaction between employees and management. Teams enable a company to draw on the skills and imagination of the whole work force. Teams provide a level of expertise that is unavailable on the individual level. Teams help companies deliver higher-quality products or services at faster speeds and lower costs.

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Six barriers to intercultural communication are:
 Stereotypes: North Americans are sometimes viewed as overly friendly, blunt, and childlike.
 Interpretation of time: Many Latin Americans believe that important things take more time than unimportant things.
 Personal space requirements: Arab business people stand very close to each other compared to U.S. business people.
 Body language: The symbol for okay in the U.S. means zero in France and a vulgarity in Brazil.
 Translation limitations: The Japanese concept of indebtedness has no direct English equivalent.
 Ethnocentrism: Many non-Hispanics do not learn to speak even a little Spanish in areas of the U.S. with a high Hispanic population.

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Dimension 1 Behavior that is illegal and unethical
Dimension 2 Behavior that is illegal, yet ethical
Dimension 3 Behavior that is legal, yet unethical
Dimension 4 Behavior that is both legal and ethical

Student views as to what is ethical will vary. Examples can include situations similar to the following:

Dimension 1 An employee stealing merchandise from the company he works for.
An employee altering accounting records to hide money stolen from a business.

Dimension 2 A physician accepting a 100 gift from a pharmaceutical representative.
A manager telling an employee not to buy a new house when the company has not yet made public that a layoff is coming.

Dimension 3 A person in a management position having an affair with a subordinate.
An employer reading personal email generated by an employee.

Dimension 4 An employer firing an employee who is failing to do his/her job.
A manager who gives a pay raise to her most productive workers.