Cultural Challenges After Entry : Leadership And Management

It is essential to have teamwork within a company. Companies who have embraced the concept of teamwork have reported increased performance in work production, problem solving and it has stimulated new growth. This group project approach has improved employee morale and increased input when managed correctly. The benefits of teamwork can make a positive effect in the company that incorporates this type of teamwork approach.

The organizational culture is a very important aspect of team spirit in the organization as it can either encourage or discourage teamwork. Group think is all about coordination of individual efforts in a group while teamwork, on the other hand, entails sharing a common purpose while working towards the achievement of given goals (Sims & Sauser, 2013). It, therefore, becomes clear that team think promotes the unity of purpose and is likely to yield better results as compared to group think (Sims & Sauser, 2013). Organizations have now to adjust their organizational culture in order for it to support the evolution of groups into teams (Sims & Sauser,

In most cultures, behavior can be placed on a continuum, so that not all individuals are stereotypical. Chinese mangers place more value on keeping harmony within a workgroup. Managers influence the need for co-operation and group welfare, further affect work relationships, leading to a managing philosophy based on loyalty, and collectivism. These attributes joined with a strong correlation among age and seniority and status, can translate into legitimate authority and power. The culture this creates, relies on benevolent styles of communicating with middle managers and down the line.

Virtually every working person I’ve ever come across believes in teamwork. At least they say they do. Sadly, a scarce few of them make teamwork a reality in their organizations; in fact, they often end up creating environments where political infighting and departmental serenity are the norm. And yet they continue to flaunt their belief in teamwork, as if that alone will somehow make it magically appear. I think that only a small minority of companies truly understand and embrace teamwork, even though, more than one in three of the Fortune 500 publicly declares it to be a core value.

The team working is an important concept of the society wherein few people work together towards a common goal. In American culture, working in teams often considered contrary. Marvin Weisbord, author and organizational development expert, mentioned that, “Teamwork is the quintessential contradiction of a society grounded in individual achievement.” Still building, leading and organizing successful teams considered as a critical leadership task. It is always challenging to have people work together closely to achieve specific tasks in any team environment.

Teamwork exists in every organization structure. Without teamwork, an organization may not survive or strive to complete a project. (LIKUP, 2006)

According to Dr. R. M. Belbin, individuals display different behaviours at work place and he has categorized them under nine team roles. Taking his theory also into consideration, advantages and disadvantages of teamwork will be critically compared in relation to work individually.

Why teamwork is important? According to a Chinese Proverb “behind an able man there are always other able men”. To achieve success in life, we have to work together because teamwork is the heart of great achievement. Teamwork involves more people, which means more ideas, resources and energy than an individual would have. There is always a team behind every successful individual or organization. If we take examples of political leaders, pop culture icons, business innovators or spiritual leaders, they always achieve success with the help of their team. Teamwork shows benevolence and determination. One of the greatest focal points of teamwork is learning. Individuals have a tendency to learn quicker when working with other individuals. There

As a manager from Malaysia who is going to China soon for an overseas assignment, there are few national culture components to be concern and consider. However, I

Virtually every working person I’ve ever come across believes in teamwork. At least they say they do. Sadly, a scarce few of them make teamwork a reality in their organizations; in fact, they often end up creating environments where political infighting and departmental serenity are the norm. And yet they continue to flaunt their belief in teamwork, as if that alone will somehow make it magically appear. I think that only a small minority of companies truly understand and embrace teamwork, even though, more than one in three of the Fortune 500 publicly declares it to be a core value.

Team management arose in Japan and Israel, after the development in North America, it broke through the limitation of culture and spread worldwide. Management team is defined as the work of 2 to 20 members of groups, whose work tasks associated with each other’s and jointly responsible for the results of team work (Demaetto, 1997). The rise of team management can not only improve the employees’ satisfaction, promote the transformation and creativity, control and constraint members behavior effectively (Levati, 1975), but also has great significance in preventing negative effects after the increase of organization scale.

The Chinese relationship is governed by the concept of guanxi, which can be best described as a very early form of a social network (Hammond & Glenn, 2004). According to Hammond & Glenn, “Guanxi teaches a person to identify a competitor (outsider) from a collaborator (insider), and prescribes rules for dealing with each kind of person” (P. 26). Under the concept of guanxi the Chinese value relationships and foreigners are required to build trust and relationships if they wish to receive favorable treatment from their Chinese counterparts (Graham & Lam, 2003; Miles, 2003; Hammond & Glenn, 2004). According to Hammond & Glenn’s 2004 work,

The People’s Republic of China has the largest population in the world with 3.7 million square miles of land, half of which is uninhabitable. China is a member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Their government is a communist state primarily lead by the “Paramount Leader,” Xi Jinping, who holds three significant head-of-state and political offices. This paper will take a look at the culture of China in a way that should be beneficial to anyone planning to do business in China. It will also look at the business environment of China and how it compares to the United States by looking at how China approaches rules and regulations, China’s economic growth, some forecasting of China’s future workforce, and some opportunities and threats of doing business in China. Finally, the paper will take a look at the way Chinese people respond to leadership and get an idea of the best leadership styles for expatriates.

Chinese and Western management styles have varied greatly for many years, but are now beginning to merge. With more and more Western companies opening offices in China, managers are using hybrid styles of management. The combining of Chinese and Western styles of management have helped both companies and managers to become successful. This is due to the positive manager-employee relationships that develop and lead to high job satisfaction. Chinese managers are creating strong relationships and social networks not only within their company, but with other mangers working at different companies throughout the world. Companies that open offices in China often use

The style of management and administration of an organization that can be viewed as efficient in most cases stems from a competent and effective management system. A competent system on the other hand is as a result of an effective organizational leadership. One of the key factors that contribute to effective and competent management and administration style is team building. Team building is very important in any organization as it fosters close ties between the top and the bottom management personnel. Team building is also believed to reinforce the skills of the work force; team building reinforces the attitude, the skills and knowledge of the workforce. This paper therefore seeks to analyze and discuss the extent to which the