Cross cultural barriers in the Thai workplace: a case study of Myanmar's migrant workers in Thailand.

Abstract

Globalization enables people to work across the country which draws the neighboring countries workers’ attention to finding a job in Thailand. It leads to increase in the cross-cultural working environment. So, understanding the culture difference has essentially become important for each business sector to embrace the culture change. This research utilized the qualitative approach by using in-depth interview to explore the significant key barriers that obstruct the migrant workers to work effectively by selecting the Myanmar’s migration as the case study. To explore the barriers of ineffective of work, it will help to analyze on what caused the dissatisfaction and ineffective productivity which will advise the company to solve the problems. The study revealed that language and work-related stress barriers considered being the most powerful factors. The different language and different culture cause the communication failure, misinterpretation and misunderstanding contents and also increase the stress during working. As the result, it reduces the productivity and cause of ineffective working environment.