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The cultural issues that will affect a company operating in such different parts of the world and if these conflicts you observe are a function of different types of work people have to perform.
Case Summary: Newskool Grooves is transnational company developing music software. Its founder and CEO is Gerd Finger. The company’s headquarters are in Berlin where new products are developed and organizational strategy is established. The final decisions to hire employees are always taken by Finger and he also put lots of emphasis on independent work styles. Employees want to work at this company because it’s cutting edge and the organization has a much decentralized culture.
Interpretation: Organizations with undefined and flexible organizational designs are called boundary less organizations. Internal and external boundaries of the organizations are eliminated by boundary less organizations. Culture is known as the knowledge and values shared by a society. People work from different places in boundary less organization, rather than meeting at some common places. Many of them cannot share any information easily since they might have not seen each other.
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