Table of Contents INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1 MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1 Reflection...............................................................................................................................1 CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3 REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION Cross cultural Management refers to the working in a team in which different peoples belongs to variety of cultures, practices and preference. In the same way the report is also based upon the case study of build a construction in which different peoples belong to variety of cultures are come. The present report is based upon the reflection by using Gibbs model of reflection that clearly states the learning experience during whole study. MAIN BODY Reflection The entire project is based upon the cross cultural management in which Jones was born in Tanzania and he is also familiar with the host country as well. After that, Jones was hiring a project liaison specialist for construction purpose into the country so that people belongs to different culture get easily take advantage from this. This situation creates a lot of differences and made it hard for him to ensure proper development of his dam project (Boud, Keogh and Walker, 2016). During this situation, it can be seen that the dam constructions requires huge amount of capital and these projects often faces opposition from groups acting on behalf of local parties. The organizational culture was dominated by practices such as individualism where only the authorities had the right to make required decisions. Individualism culture as per Hofstede's in his cultural dimensions, tends to bring results which are not oriented towards large success because it is not possible for an individual to attain organizational success on his own. I believe that the Jones needed to follow collective culture instead of individualistic culture. It could've helped him in achieve better growth and advantage in the making of his dam. From the overall experience, I evaluated good and bad things as well during the whole situation. Such that at initial stage the people working in the group for the dam project felt excited but when they came to next stage, I evaluated that there are so many wrong things were happening that created the negative impact upon the people such that Jones scarified a sheep, two cows, four goats and many more than per described and this leads to create negative impact upon the Christian peoples such that they are totally against from this. On the other side I also evaluated many good things during the situation such that Jones hired in African operation in order to deal out many problems because he has a knowledge of different cultures and this way he is able to 1
find many solution related to complex situation as well (Boud, Keogh and Walker, 2018). In this situation. Despitethe government’s anti-corruption stance Jones found himself dealing with people in a position to demand large payments from services in the organisation.From the entire journey, It is analyzed that there were many things that went well and did not go well but this also helped the people which working in the group gain new knowledge and understand the importance of dam projects and their concepts. (Quinn, 2018).From this, It has been also analyzed that having knowledge of different situations to the people which were involved in the dam project. The knowledge which the people and Jones possessed the same so that it will help to deal with many complex situation. Thus, this thing goes went according on the other side, the hiring process of Jones was not suitable because he discriminated the employees on the basis of cultures such that he might encourage the employee in order to participate more actively in a process. This thing is not going well during the situation. On the other side, from the entire journey it Jones was not good to his colleagues and it created a negative impact on them. (Thomas and Peterson, 2017). From the overall scenario has been concluded that the organizational culture during the dam project was not so supportive and growth oriented. Also, its leadership lacked discipline and achievement. It was important that the culture made use of collectivism rather than being individualistic approach in its working. Working collectively and making decisions on the same basis could've made the organization to complete their dam project on the time and successfully achieve growth and success. Along with it, Jones needed to support its employees and required to be disciplined in attaining growth and development of his project. These all efforts could've helped the Dam Project in being completed before its due timeline. The organization faced troubles due to ineffective management of the leader and this was the only reason which was making it hard for the people to achieve required growth and advantage in its Dam Projects. It created impact on the organizational environment and made the organization and its people suffer. To deal with this, it was important for the organization to initiate better cultural practices such as (Barksby, Butcher and Whysall, 2015). It was important for the organization and its people to work in cooperation with each other to achieve required growth and advantage.The Hofstede's uncertainty avoidance culture can be made use of here because if the organizations culture is promoting less risks, it can ensure 2
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that there is not any ineffective management is taking place. The uncertainty avoidance can ensure that the organisation is growth oriented and there are none of risk are arriving which can make its growth suffer due to ineffective management.Lack of growth made its people suffer and culture also suffered along. The approach of the collectivism is needed for the Dam project to achieve success. In case, when people worked with each other and understood their needs and own needs. It could've made the working better and the project successful in its due date. It is important for the organization to achieve growth and success by helping and being a part of the team and achieve success. CONCLUSION By summing up above report it has been concluded that cross cultural management helps provide effective and smooth running for every business. From this reflective report it has been concluded that throughout the project it was important to make use of collectivist culture style of Hofstede's. Collective culture is more precise in achieving set growth and development for the organization and had maintained better organizational efficiency. 3
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