The General Impact of Management in International Business

“Organizational Management and Leadership” defines planning as “the development of goals, which leads to the development of an overall strategy for achieving those goals. Planning can be performed at all levels of an organization. Supervisors are planning when a weekly work schedule is put together for hourly staff. Top executives are planning when they define the mission statement of the company and determine how the organization can maintain its competitive advantage.”

Fair trade is a market reactive system that wants to abolish global inhumane acts from child labor, poor working environments, low wages, and healthy working conditions. Fair Trade does not control the prices at a local level the producers

I think being ethical in a diverse workplace is the most difficult challenge many organization face today. Leading a group of culturally diverse individual is both a challenge and an opportunity for leaders. The challenge is to create a new work environment that most inadvertently lead to organizational change and social awareness. While the opportunity is having a competitive advantage among other related organizations to address and resolve cultural issues and problems. However, with every organization jumping on the bandwagon of global expansion, ethical behaviors are often compromised.

Management and organizational behaviors are affected by multiple issues within an organization, from the type of work done, to the industry, to the rules and policies of the company. All of these elements work together to establish a culture within an organization and to provide direction and guidance for employees as they go about their day-to-day work. Ethics and diversity are two major dynamic realities that influence the environment of organizations today. Diversity is present when there is a mixture of differences and similarities in terms of age, religion, culture, gender, ethnicity, and education amongst a group of people in the same environment. Therefore, in order to support an ethical organizational culture, it is important for an organization to establish a code of ethics.

The central moral issue addressed, in this case, includes the provision of a fair working environment for all employees without any form of discrimination. Worker autonomy, employee morale, and business development are the main factors at stake when an organization does not provide a fair working environment for the employees.

All people have personal values and ethics, just as they have cultural values. Often times, those personal values and ethics may clash with those of their employer. As an example, as an individual, a person's ethical guidelines might require honesty, integrity and respect. If that individual works for a company that does not necessarily operate under those same tenets, the employee may well face an ethical dilemma. This paper looks into how personal values, organizational values and ethical values come into play in the decision-making process.

Many people in the United States are beginning to promote and support a movement called fair trade. Under this movement, American companies supporting these ideals will only purchase goods from artisans who are able to work in healthy and safe conditions and are adequately paid for their work. Not only does this encourage foreign businesses to adopt the ideals of fair trade, but it also benefits the economies of the communities in which these artisans work. Fair trade creates a situation where everyone wins.

What is Fair Trade? According to Dolan (2007) “The fair-trade movement is founded on a ‘politics of reconnection’ (Hartwick 1998:433) between Northern consumers and their Southern brethren, enabling the latter to receive a fair return for their work and decent working and living conditions through equitable trade” (p. 245). In other words, it is a movement that connects consumers of developed countries to producers in developing countries through a system of exchange to help to promote better working conditions for the workers in developing countries. Fair Trade products usually cost more than regular products, but the producers of these products are provided with better working conditions. The major purpose of Fair Trade does not focus on the minimization of costs as otherwise could be observed in the practice of today’s market, but rather it focuses on saving lives and environment. In other words, the purpose of Fair Trade is to create social relationships between the parties of exchange that are not based on the drive of materiality, but are based on promotion of ‘social justice’ (e.g. better working conditions for the workers in developing countries). In this paper, I will outline four major benefits of Fair Trade consisted of self-formation of consumers, recreation of social and economic ties, opportunity for consumers to help out workers in developing countries and establishment of personal relationships between consumers and producers. Three major problems associated

Asia’s fashion and apparel market will continue to grow at a healthy clip through 2011-2015. The reason why we focus on Asia area is because as forecast last year, clothing demand in Asia is higher than the demand in Western Europe and North America in 2011 [Appendix 2]. “Many economists predict that demand will be driven by rising personal disposable income levels and an increased focus on fashion apparel, especially in the main cities.” Said by Carrie Yu. As we known, many foreign apparel brands are already present in Asia, and they will spread steadily. Here we have a figure to show the market demand growth in different Asia countries [Appendix 3]. After analysis the data and GDP per person at purchasing-power parity [Appendix 4], we choose three countries-Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong-that are good for Hollister to expand in.

Organization wants to achieve the objectives of sustained growth and increased profitability, organization must constant innovation its product or service, also need to carry out some plans to expand its business to enable an organization to have a better development. Organization expands its business cannot be confined to the domestic market must also move abroad, which effectively allows an organization closer to the global market and broadening the scope of business and profitability. However, business expansion is not as easy in this global environment, globalization has not only changed the enterprise competitive landscape also influence the way leaders conduct business (Caligiuri, 2006). Furthermore, with globalization, global leadership in terms of cultural knowledge needed to become more acute and require more advanced level of cognitive ability on the complexity of managing the demand of multiple cultures while completing managerial tasks (Caligiuri, 2006, Grosse, 2011). Therefore, the development of global management skills is very important for the global organizations and managers. Only effective in developing global management skills can help the organization reduce the risk of international business

Both the authors have taken descriptive approach to elaborate in detail their respective areas of cross cultural management. As per article, “Rethinking Cross Cultural Management in a Globalizing Business World” by Soderberg & Holden (2002), due to globalisation and its increasing trend, the organisations and its environment has gone through significant changes. Thus the traditional way of defining the cross cultural management needs amendments. Further the author has elaborated that in this commitment the authors are contending for a split far from the conventional method for considering and portraying diverse administration for two fundamental reasons. To begin with, the winning idea of society as-substance, which in this logical connection is vigorously connected with national societies (and, by augmentation, country states) is distant with the hypothetical improvements of conceptualization of society and character. Moreover a conceptualization of hierarchical and national society’s too characterized and homogeneous substances is out of stage with the new economy, with its accentuation on systems administration, hierarchical learning and information as the fundamental hierarchical asset, which rises above firm, industry, and national limits. Second, the new economy requires not simply new skills and 'worldwide education but also needs to adopt 'the worldwide attitude'. A globalizing business world too needs suitable calculated apparatuses and expository methodologies of advantage to both analysts besides, specialists. Consequently the article “Cross cultural Differences in Management” by Amman & Jordan (2012) has concluded that due to cross cultural environments, the managers can encounter different impact on different areas of management. These impacts can create many limitations and barriers on different areas of business. Therefore, managers of the

A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by Michael Porter (Porter, 2013)

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Management is involved at all levels of a business and is central to business more importantly in this globalised era. The functions of management outlined above are cardinal to any business. This paper will discuss the importance of management in a globalised business era.

Management plays a crucial role in globalisation of a business, they do research and appoint qualified executives to help implement strategies and plans set by top management and chose the right style of management to manage the global business and strive in a competitive market. Manager of such global business are faced with many problem and issues, ethical issue and environmental issues, management of global business they learn from such problems.