Cross Cultural Management

Cross Cultural
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Background..................................................................................................................................1
Category one................................................................................................................................1
Category two................................................................................................................................4
Category three..............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cross culture is a conception that recognises the differences between business people of diverse
countries, backgrounds and ethnicities and the importance of bridging them. With
internationalisation, cross culture education has become critically essential to businesses. Cross
culture management is the study of administration in a cross culture context (Guan, Xie and
Huan, 2018). It considers the examination of the impact of social culture on managers and
management activities as well as the study of the cultural orientations of individual
administrators and organisation members. This written report is based on a case study of a major
dam project in Tanzania. The document will discussed about some category like national culture,
leadership and motivation or HRM by considering different models and concepts from each
categories.
MAIN BODY
Background
Graham Stenberg is the vice precedent in a US based company Hydro Generation and the
firm is going to work on a major dam project in Tanzania. The administration of the respective
firm provided it all responsibilities regarded this project to Brett Jones who has already
completed his assignments on the preliminary and construction phase of the project and the
outcomes had been highly satisfactory and had finished every task on time and within budget.
Jones also knew the philosophy and values of the founders and the CEO who had been
instrumental in shaping HG’s mission and culture (Kohon, 2018). The management provide all
the responsibilities to Jones regarding this project the person has effectively aware and familiar
with this nation as Jones earning an MBA at the University of Boston and then took a job with
HG and when the venture establish its new project in Tanzanian then company select the person
to perform in this project and take the responsibilities of this African assignment.
Category one
National culture
It refers to the set of norms, behaviours, beliefs, and customs and values shares by the
population of a sovereign country. Also indicates to particular attributes like language religion,
ethnic and racial identity and cultural history and traditions. As per the view of Geert Hofstede ,
the collective programming often mind distinguishing the people of one group or category of
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