Developing Cross-Cultural Capabilities

Developing
Cross-Cultural
Capabilities

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Opportunities and risks for partial shift in manufacturing:.........................................................1
Hofstede model:...........................................................................................................................3
Trompenaar’s model:...................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cross culture capabilities refer to efforts of an organization for ensuring effective interaction
of working staff which can be acquired by skills, behaviour, system as well as knowledge. It is
required for the purpose of planning, supporting, improving and delivering, services in a manner
which is culturally respectful as well as appropriate. This report is based on analysis of
development of cross cultural capabilities (Estrada-Villalta and Adams, 2018). Chosen SME for
this report is Barker Shoes. Entity is a shoe manufacturing company which based in
Northampton, United Kingdom. Company is planning to expand its operations related to
production in Vietnam.
This report covers evaluation of opportunities as well as threats that is associated with
partial shift in manufacturing in relation to expansion of business activities in another country.
Further, different models that facilitates effective management of cross cultural as well as human
resource related considerations are discussed.
MAIN BODY
Opportunities and risks for partial shift in manufacturing:
Cross cultural capabilities serve as an effective approach that enables an enterprise to deal with
differences that are associated with cross cultural operations or interactions. In this highly
evolving corporate world, incorporation of effective cross cultural capabilities is essential for
aligning with business activities (Kazadi, Lievens and Mahr, 2016). Development of capabilities
related to cross culture in an organization aims at creating awareness among working staff in
relation to common cultural framework that fosters effective communication in business. In
context to Barker Shoes, as entity is expanding its production in Vietnam, firm is planning to
implement a production shift. There are several opportunities for an organization and along with
it, several risks are associated with it. Such risks and opportunities are discussed below.
Opportunities for Barker Shoes in context to partial shift in manufacturing:
 Capable manufacturers are available: Foremost factor for consideration while shifting
operations of manufacturing of a business to Vietnam is that nation pertains all required
resources that ensures effective manufacturing. Hence, importers are preferring to shift
their production to Vietnam which enables elimination risk associated with workforce in
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