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Corporation Management and Business: Assignment

   

Added on  2020-03-23

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1Inpex CorporationManagement and Business context

2Inpex CorporationTable of ContentsIntroduction................................................................................................................................3Cross-Cultural Issues Affecting Inpex.......................................................................................3Alternative Business Practices associated to Cross-Cultural Management...............................6Recommendations to Inpex........................................................................................................8Conclusions..............................................................................................................................11References................................................................................................................................12

3Inpex CorporationIntroductionInpex Corporation headquartered in Japan operates as a multinational organization in the oiland gas industry. It focuses on the exploration and generation of oil and gas reserves for theglobal consumers. Inpex Corporation conducts its business based on its branches spreadalong 20 different international markets. Inpex Australia has its headquarters based in Perth.It focuses on conducting its operations based on a total workforce of 1200 employees bothincluding people in fixed and contractual payroll. Maximum number of staffs and contractorsare observed to be involved in Inpex Corporation’s Ichthys LNG Project[ CITATION Sha171\l 1033 ]. The report focuses on evaluating the different cross-cultural issues faced by Inpex in terms ofoperating in Australia. It would also focus on the generation of different alternative processesfor generating needed solutions to the issues and thereby in applying the theoretical inputs onInpex based on generation of potential recommendations. Both empirical and case basedstudy is to be carried out in the report. Cross-Cultural Issues Affecting InpexThe Australian employees of the Japanese oil and gas company, Inpex during 2016 protestedagainst the existence of unfair work situations in the company’s workplaces. Employees inInpex increasingly complained regarding the existence of unhealthy and unsafe workstandards that were affecting their lives. The management of Inpex however reflected that itlargely focused on promoting safety and also effective health standards for its employees.Further, Inpex is also accused in affecting the mental health and also in disturbing the familystructure of its employees. Inpex is also observed to have failed in promoting employmentopportunities to local people in that the localities have protested against the continuous andintense four week tenure at the workplace without any leave[ CITATION Law16 \l 1033 ].

4Inpex CorporationInpex’s employees falling in the fly in-fly out category increasingly protested against theexistence of long rosters in the company. The main concern is adhered to the existence of the28-7 work roster that caused the fly in-fly out employees to stay away from their families for

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