Cross Culture Management

CROSS CULTURE
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
National culture...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Reflexive report...........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Cross cultural management basically consist of managing teams and there work that have
different cultures and preference of consumers in international business. National Culture of a
sovereign nation is set of rules and regulations, peoples believe and their customs. There are
various countries which develop management department and its daily practices on this culture
so that company work on various ethnic principles. In the case study Vice president of a US
based Hydro Generation is confused that whether he should appoint Brett Jones as project
Liaison specialist or not(Thomas and Peterson, 2017). Brett Jones is taking Tanzanian work
culture in the organisation and this can lead to negative work environment and US is having
different work culture. Although he is giving highly satisfied result and used to finish every task
on time. Further study of Hofstede theory by its six different dimensions on culture and its
implementation on basis of the case is explained. It also includes Scripted podcast on given case
study. In further studying the case I learned various things about national culture and also
improved myself as a team member which is given in the reflexive report(Strese and et.al.,
2016).
TASK 1
National culture
National Culture is set of norms, customs, values of group of people of a sovereign
nation. They may have different language, traditions, religion which differ their culture from
other countries. According to case study national culture of the two countries :- US and Tanzania
are quite different(Helmreich and Merritt , 2017). This is further explained with Hofstede
theory:-
Hofstede Theory:-
Different nation have their own cultural beliefs and work accordingly. These beliefs help
every individual of the organisation to know at what principles they have work on and they learn
how to work ethically in an organisation. Now following there national culture may lead to
lawful action against them(Morden , 2017).
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory basically tells the way values in a workplace are
affected by culture of the nation.
This theory has six dimension:-
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