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The Success Factors Of Multinational Corporations

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One of the most essential success factor in multinational corporations is related with the organization’s group of extremely competent international leaders and managers who have the global knowledge of consumer demands for services as well as products in a world scale, the knowledge of production and service capabilities, and also who can influence others in spite of diverse cultural or political backgrounds that make them think, analyze, decide, act and communicate in a different way than the leader (Teagarden, n.d).
One of the challenges multicultural corporations have is to identify the right people with the skill sets and aptitudes to manage in global organizations. These skills include the culture, the language, the knowledge of markets, the adaptability and the Global Mindset. In the following chart is a summary of these skills and techniques of a manager in MNC in contrast of a manager with a local presence:
Skill/Technique Global Management Local Management
Culture
Sensitivity
 The ability to understand different cultural contexts and viewpoints
 Adapts to different cultures
 Manage diverse teams
 Do not have to deal with different cultures
 The awareness of the own culture is not a critical skill to have
Communication  Knowledge of a foreign language
 Demonstrating strong communication skills  It is not necessary to be multilingual Global Mindset  Ability to understand and interpret what is going on in a global situation
 Do no need to have a global

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