Managing across culture
Introduction
Globalization makes the world become to be a big family. More and more international company appears in the social. While in the same times, people from different countries or different culture start to work together. How to make the staffs from different culture to work together become a core problem facing by the company. By facing the conflict and difference between different culture, to find out a way to effectively manage across culture become more helpful to the company. According to Hofstede (1980), he point out in Economic Integration, all the company around the world is to find out the way how to meet the need of the market and satisfied their customers. To have the effective strategies, we
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In the individualistic societies, people are more emphasis their own achievement and initiative. (John, 1980). On the contrast, people form collectivist countries are rely on information provide by others. People are belonging to the group. Group benefits are more important than their own needs. They have their own responsibility to their organization. Japan is a typical collectivism country, while America represents an individualist country. According to the differences in these two cultures, in the organization, managers have to use different management strategies to effectively manage the term. In the collectivist countries, the managers are encouraging the employees taking part in decision making. So it needs longer time to make a decision, but for the decision implement, it takes shorter time, because every member involved in the decision making, they can clearly know the aim and the context of the task.. So the manager should more positively, more frequencely, more widely, and more deeply interact with the group members, in this way, group interacting influence, teamwork and favoritism will be stronger than in IND culture. But in the individualism
In multinational workplaces understanding how important the significance of cultural differences is larger than we might think. Organizations that are diverse have to work together because their functionality impacts the productivity of the workplace. It is vital to have an understanding the different cultures to develop a strong organization. Certain principles will help you acknowledge that different cultures exist within the organization. As a manager, you have to analyze the reasons for the development of the differences and
Balancing two different cultures is a thing that most people from immigrant and/or strong culturally, traditionally rooted families have come accustom to. Over the years they have learned about things that they should or should not do when dealing with a certain culture. For instance, someone who comes from a very conservative family doesn’t wear revealing clothes, unless they are out with their friends and know that their family won’t see them. On contrast people, who don’t have more than one culture might not understand why you cover up so much in front of your parents.
The management of an organization plays an integral part in determining the direction and performance of the organization. The manner in which the management of an organization is handled has a profound effect on the organization. The success of an organization is dependent upon a flexible and skilled management and workforce. The management of an organization is responsible for shaping up the organizational behavior and ultimately the culture within the organization. Public management faces a multiple of challenges and opportunities, how the management deals with these issues translates to efficiency in management. The personal judgments and skills of public managers can make a significant impact in public management. If
This paper is a report on cross-cultural management, with the issues related to cross-cultural management being discussed in the paper. Additionally, the report has produced the future way of cross-cultural management, including how it can be improved in offices relying much on this strategic approach.
The culture centered approach will be the hypothetical lens that will be utilized to comprehend the key parts of this study. The researcher clearly trusts it is the most fitting structure in which to find the study for the accompanying reasons.
In this era of Globalisation, cross cultural management is the biggest challenge that is faced by the organisations. Within the business context, cross culture refers to interaction between different cultures. Cross cultural management refers to managing the employees from different cultural background in one environment (Adler, 2008). Cross culture management is a significant issue within the organisations as the success of an organisation depends upon the smooth interaction of the employees. This paper is aimed at providing insight on the cross cultural management and the main issues and challenges relating to cross cultural management. For the purpose of this paper, two articles, “Cross-cultural Differences in Management”, by Amman & Jordan
Cultural differences and cross culture conflicts is the biggest challenge in terms of cross-cultural management that will arise in
What are the seven cultural variables in the communication process? Explain 1)Attitudes, 2) Social organization, 3) Thought patterns, 4) Roles, 5), Language, 6) Nonverbal communication, 7) time.
Mr Duss has to read between lines and has to decode each manager behaviour. He needs to read hidden signals. A kind of feedback form can be set up to see what has been understood and what misunderstood after analyze.
Individualism/ collectivism. In individualistic organizations people achieve goals alone and they take care of themselves first. In collectivistic cultures instead members have joint responsibilities for example Japan.
Globalization nowadays is a very popular topic. With the rapid development of the economy, services and commercials trade between countries become more and more convent. The world becomes more and more like a global village. At the same time, it begins to have a deep influence on a company’s strategy plan which manager is involved in an international business market. In International Business: The Challenges of Globalization, I interested in PART 5 Chapter 2 Cross-Cultural Business. In my pervious business ethic course I learned a chapter about foreign assignment which an employee works in a foreign country and have a cultural issue. And in that course I did a research paper about foreign culture so I think these chapter is familiar with
Effective cross-cultural management has to be grounded in a detailed knowledge of individual cultures. Discuss using examples from two multinational companies.
Culture can have various aspects to it, which some are innate and passed down from generation to generation, and some are changed through time based on influence from what may be popular in culture. Although some individuals living outside of their home country find themselves assimilating to culture in that particular culture, it is undeniable that ascribed characteristics do not change (Kahn, 2015). Most individuals are products of influence, whether if it is the media, coworkers, or other people we meet along the way in our life. Some individuals approach different cultures with an open mind and respect while others may feel uncomfortable. Some cultures value working together as one, and others may be selfish thinking that it is all about me. When conducting business on a multinational project, which is done more often that we think, it is helpful to be understanding of some aspects of the particular cultures being dealt with to work in harmony. Therefore, it is beneficial to become familiar with both the 7 dimensions of culture as described by Hofstede and Tropennars and Hampden-Turner’s model of culture can be helpful in preventing misunderstandings. For the purposes of this assignment, I will focus on my country of origin Mexico, and compare and contrast with the United States and Jordan.
The individualism concept contends that the interdependence that a society’s defines itself as “we or I” and defines the how the members position themselves accordingly (Hofstede, n.d.). This belief is anchored in where society member identify with the “I” mentality where members are more concerned about themselves and their immediate family. Whereas collectivism contends that, the society members are more concerned about the groups they belong to rather than their own status. In-group members place the needs of the group over their individual needs and are happier with the success of the group over their own. China scored twenty on the Hofstede model, which suggest that in the Chinese culture, its workers are more loyal to a company and its leaders than their own success. This is a great benefits for a MNC, its offers a stable workforce that can build loyalty among the workers, it will create more stability in the products and services because there is less
Traditional expectations hold that, when one is young, it is impossible to be knowledgeable and have the necessary experience and competence to manage successfully.