Hello from misty, rainy Darjeeling, India!
My client here has posed an interesting question. She has instituted email as a way for the staff to improve communications amongst themselves. But she's having trouble getting people to acknowledge that they've actually received their emails and then act as if they've gotten the message. We both think it may be because the culture here, Nepali primarily, is very face-to-face and person-to-person oriented. People just don't have the habit of intra-office memos and communicating on paper.
What have some of you other international techies/management consultants done to resolve this problem in Africa/Latin America/Eastern Europe... or with more verbal-oriented peoples in the US?
Thanks,
Patricia Perkins
Worlds Touch
Rotary Cultural Ambassadorial Scholar 2006-2007
http://www.worldstouch.org
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