Cross Cultural Management - Assignment
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Cross cultural management (Literature review on “culture and business”)The present article also shows a brief history about the leadership and cross cultural management. The present literature provides a brief overview of how the field of global leadership and culture evolved in the global market. It is also discussing the nature of its origin inthe field of cross cultural management. The present literature review includes the research and opinions regarding to the cross cultural management and impact of the culture on the business activities and operations. Here is the discussion about the relationship between cross cultural management and leadership. In today’s era, the company uses various resources to manage and handle the cross cultural issues within the organization. Here is the discussion about the significance of cross cultural dimensions model. The paper also finds out the effective and dynamic solutions to handle and manage the cultural issues within the organization. As stated by the Bird and Mendenhall (2016), cross cultural management referred to a accommodating differences in cultural best practices when handling the outside of one’s home country. Thomas and Peterson (2017) stated that cross cultural management arose concurrently to the general field of organizational behavior and field of the management. It is noted that the field of cross cultural primarily monitored on study of organizational actions and management system. According to Bird and Mendenhall (2016), culture is essential for multinational MNC’s in order to expand and explore the skills and knowledge of expatriate managers in the host countries. In today’s globalization world, due to multiplicity, flux, and complexity required managers and leaders to confront the necessity of initiating the new global leadership skills beyond those that were essential to be a dynamic and unique expatriate manager. With this movement in organizational procedure and framework need for leaders to loosen managerial control and more rely on the shared values. This led to an emphasizes on higher cultural awareness. Ang and Van Dyne (2015) stated that culture guides and assists the employees for doing the work effectively and efficiently. Culture can be explained as the acquired knowledge and experience that people use to interpret experience and generate social behavior and actions. It is essential to identify that culture is learned and helps the people in their efforts to interact andcommunicate with each other in the community (French, 2015).According to Bird and Mendenhall (2016), comparative studies are based on the sociological andpsychological perspectives that generally use structures and theories of culture to flourish the 2
Cross cultural management perspectives. Culture is considered as a group and it refers to a collective phenomenon of shared values, attitudes and meanings. Culture is derived from the social environment. People are not born with a shared set of beliefs and values in the workplace. According to literature given by Reisinger and Turner (2012) that culture is passed from generation to generation from teachers, mentors, leaders and peers.In 21st century global leadership has become an important part of each and every organization. The talent development professionals monitors on enhancing and improving the global leadership skills and talents. It has been stated that leadership styles also affect the culture and values of the firm. Effective and unique leadership styles are used by the organization to handle and reduce the language and communication barriers (Luthans and Doh, 2018). Communication is one of the significant factors that affect the culture aspects in the workplace. Itis stated that “no one will talk much in the community if they knew that how often time they misunderstood and misbehave other within the organization. Sometimes, the workers are failed to maintain a heavy and strong communication in the organization as it may influence the results and outcomes of the firm (Nudurupati et al, 2011). It has been measured that the organization should use verbal communication to handle and control the business actions and operations. Besides sending a clear and unique message, it make sure ensure that receiver get the same information and facts. Baran and Baran (2014) revealed that effective and unique communicationsystem determines and evaluate the organizational structure and efficiency. In this context, it is essential and imperative to draw the basis where communication and company are intercepted bythe culture components. Language barriers and issues are also faced and handled by the companywhen implementing the business actions and plans in the international market. Generally, employees are not able to understand and learn the languages of the other countries due to lack of proper training and coaching as it affects the values and beliefs of the firm (Kraidy, 2017). Due to language barriers, the company could fail to attain optimum level of outcomes and results. No organization can survive and cope with competitors without identifying the language barriers and obstacles within the organization (Tung and Verbeke, 2010). Discrimination issues also are faced by the company which is rising due to inequality between men and women. There should not be discrimination between men and women on the basis, gender, sex and religion. Many times, employees are unable to focus on the success and sustainability of the market that could affect the success and progress of the firm adversely (Kraidy, 2017). It is stated that 3
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