Business Culture in Australia and East Asia

Business culture in Australia and East Asia
Business culture in Australia and East Asia
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Business culture in Australia and East Asia
Introduction
Business culture is the manner or style in which business operations are carried out within a
country. It influences decision making management and all business operations ranging from
production to accounting and selling. This paper analyses business culture and how it differs in
Australia from East Asia.
First and foremost, workers in Asia prefer to turn up for work during midday hours and work till
late in the night while in Australia workers prefer to start early. In India for example, workers
prefer to spend morning hours with their family and doing chores and then work till midnight.
The same is witnessed in Singapore where folks turn up for work at midday and work until
midnight (Chang 2018). However, this is not the case in Australia as people prefer to start work
early and leave early so that they can spend evening hours with their family.
Secondly, the interaction of junior employees with their seniors is advocated for in Australia
contrary to the case in East Asia. The manager or supervisor is often found amongst the
employees in Australia while in East Asian countries he/she often occupies a separate and
distinct office. The concept of hierarchy and equal treatment of employees is not so much
embraced in India and Singapore as in Australia. In addition, Employees in East Asia seldom
give or take feedback contrary to employees in Australia. Australian societies assume clear
differences between who a person is and his ideas thus if an individual’s idea is criticized, his
self-esteem is not affected (John 2018). In East Asia however, there is no clear boundary
between an idea and the individual whom the idea is from. Bad ideas are often followed by
negative personal judgment (The conversation 2018).