Scope and Purpose
This course aims to introduce issues of cross-cultural differences to OSM seafarers who work with international crew. This course is essential in order to minimize problems and misunderstandings that arise from cultural differences.
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Explain the need for cultural awareness.
- Identify fundamental patterns and factors of cultural differences.
- Explain five (5) ways of classifying national culture.
- Differentiate between high context culture and low context culture.
- Identify key learning points in cross-cultural teamworking.
- Classroom-based
- iLearn
- Open to all OSM seafarers
- Must have taken the following courses as pre-requisite to the virtual classroom session:
- OSM PEOS/ HR
- WAVE
- CCC iLearn module
- iLearn : 30 Hours
- Virtual : 2 Hours