Culture of Middle East and Business-Etiquettes
Write a 3,000 word business report based on individual reading/research and feedback received for assignment 1.
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Culture of Middle East and Business-Etiquettes
Write a 3,000 word business report based on individual reading/research and feedback received for assignment 1.
Added on 2020-01-16
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Conceptual Framework of culture...................................................................................................1Business practices of Middle East based organizations...................................................................3Culture of Middle East and Business-Etiquettes.............................................................................4Reflective account regarding the feedback......................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTIONMiddle East is considered to be a very diversified country in terms of its geographical-nature, ethnic-nature and also because of the various types of cultural practices followed there.Henceforth the following report emphasises upon diversified impacts laid by the culture overtheir business practices. All the associated elements will be reviewed critically with fewframeworks being used to support the same. Conceptual Framework of culture→Trompenaars Cultural Dimension:-Middle East is a very diversified area with varying types of cultures. The organizationspresent there often deal with this varying range of cultures. Mr. Fons Trompenaars inaccordance with this, stated that this existing diversity is responsible for creating a betterunderstanding regarding reality (Christensen and Telléus, 2016). The framework established byTrompenaars gives a description of 7 different dimensions which discussed in brief as below :-1.Particularism v/s Universalism : As per the universalist aspect, values & standardsaccount to be of utter importance & departing is done only after proper consultation.People from diversified origin often get same salary when similar situations are faced.However the particularist approach states that circumstance are responsible fordetermining the applying of ideas in usual practice as argued by Miller, (2016). In themaking up of ethical decisions, obligations along with personal-relationships play aneffective role.2.Communitarianism v/s individualism: Human-beings are often regarded as per theindividualist approach. On the other hand, as argued by Matusitz, (2014), a group is oftenconsidered to include humanity as a characteristic feature by the communitarianismapproach. Western world is often linked to the individualist culture and non westerncountries are associated to communitarianism-culture. 3.Emotional v/s neutral : Emotions are expressed in an open way however in neutral aspectcontrolling of emotion occurs. 4.Diffuse v/s specific : People who come under specific-culture often have enlarged public-space which they are comfortable in sharing with other people. With friends as well theyshare some private-space. On the other hand formality plays a key role for individualsunder diffuse-culture as argued by Gianolla, (2013). 1
5.Ascription v/s achievement : As per the culture of achievement-oriented, worth of aperson gets determined by the help of his performance in given tasks. On the other hand,ascribed culture, status gets determined person who is accountable with respect toquestion. Origin, career, gender or age is responsible for determining the position. 6.Synchronous time v/s sequential : Time is of utter importance and is regarded as moneywithin the sequential approach. Time is measured in concrete terms. On the other hand,synchronous approach allows working on multiple projects at once. 7.Outer-direction v/s internal-discussion : This aspect lets to distinguish among the internalor external impact of environment over an individual. External includes the possibility ofenvironment being a threat. Also, there is a possibility that this moves towards factors ofsociety which come under internal. →Hofsteide's model of organisational culture:-Organisational culture has an inclusion of various beliefs, practices as well as ideologieswhich differentiates one organisation from other. Under this, there is an inclusion of 5 diversifiedprinciples which have been stated as below :1.Power-distance : The power which gets delegated to employees is responsible fordifferentiating the work cultures. Herein team-leaders are often appointed for guiding theemployees. They are responsible for merging out the hidden talents & characteristics oftheir employees. However, there exists certain organisations where an employee is holdresponsible for their performance as contextualised by Koike and Lacorte, (2014). Nosuch leaders or managers are appointed for handling them.2.Feminity v/s masculinity : This aspect differentiates female as well as male values inaccordance with the culture of an organisation. Organisation where male-employees arefound to be dominating upon the female ones have different set of policies to be followedthan those where female-employee has the dominant power. According to Bennett,(2014), herein, there exists a variability in the type of duties assigned to them.3.Individualism : Many organisations rely their work practices upon effective team-work.The individuals who have a common set of interest often work together as a team. In thiscase, a healthy relationship is shared among employees within organisation. However,there are a certain set of organisations who prefer working as individuals. 2
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