{"id":3528,"date":"2014-12-18T21:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/biz\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2014-12-18T21:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T21:13:43","slug":"newly-added-kiss-bow-or-shake-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/12\/18\/newly-added-kiss-bow-or-shake-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Added: Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.uiowa.edu\/KBS\" >Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands<\/a>, now in online format, is available from the University of Iowa Libraries.\u00a0 Need to find out how about a country and its culture <em>before<\/em> you initiate business?\u00a0 Select a country and learn.*<\/p>\n<p>*You will need to enter your name and University ID to access this site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Measurable success in the global marketplace begins with an expert understanding of international protocols, practices, and cultural cues. Without it, businesses and organizations cannot develop a competitive network of customers, suppliers, and, most important, talent.<\/p>\n<p>Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands delivers essential knowledge for business people who are working abroad, traveling for business, or managing global teams from a domestic location. It empowers people to open borders, minds, and markets in more than 60 countries around the world. Each comprehensive country profile includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Country Background<\/span> &#8211; history, government, language, cultural viewpoint<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Tips on Doing Business<\/span> &#8211; local style, typical business values<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Cultural Orientation<\/span> &#8211; cognitive styles, values, decision making<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Cultural IQ Quiz<\/span> &#8211; avoid costly faux pas (If presented with a gift in China, is it considered rude not to open it in front of your hosts?)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Know Before You Go<\/span> &#8211; streaming weather, driving orientation, getting around<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Protocol<\/span> &#8211; greetings, forms of address, dress, dining, gifting conventions<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Business Practices<\/span> &#8211; importance of punctuality, negotiation practices, entertaining<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Cultural Notes<\/span> &#8211; dos and dont&#8217;s for conversations, common misunderstandings<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Key Phrases in Local Languages<\/span> &#8211; with audio to ensure correct pronunciation<\/li>\n<li>Holidays \u2013 Up-to-date calendar of official holidays<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"subhead\">Downloadable Content<\/span> &#8211; that gives easy, portable access to these and other features anywhere in the world&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands&#8221; site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands, now in online format, is available from the University of Iowa Libraries.&nbsp; Need to find out how about a country and its culture before you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}