Cross Cultural Management

Cross Cultural
Management

Table of Contents
PODCAST.......................................................................................................................................3
REFLECTIVE REPORT.................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

PODCAST
In Hydro Generation, Graham Steinberg is the vice president of the company where they
follow national culture of Tanzania. In the organization, most of the people related to Christian
religious, so company provide national prayer breakfast to their employees that is yearly event
which held in Washington, D.C. Bertelet who is the CEO of HG company believed that business
activities should be secular and substantiate Christian values. Employees of the organization
should be more responsible as well as accountable for their work and it believes by the managers
to make their organizational culture more effective by evaluating national culture.
In Tanzania, around 55.5 million population speak Swahili that is official language but
most of the people speak English. About More than 61% of citizens are Tanzanians who are
Christian and around 35 % are Muslims. Leadership is the most essential aspect which every
organization have to implement because effective leadership skills in the company's leaders will
helps in improving individual productivity as well as profitability. Steinberg is not satisfied with
Jones’s hiring practices, so they need to done some modification to attract talent which helps in
improving workplace efficiency as well as effectiveness. In this case study, Swahili is the local
language which is used in the organization as a mode of communication. In the Tanzanian
country, most of the people follow Christian religion and rest of the majority Muslim. HG does
not provide any formal guidelines for managers lifestyle but they encourage standard of living
with consistent value of comfortable international firm.
In the HG company, there are huge requirement of jobs in business operations and HG
has specialised power plant across 16 countries but in Tanzanian, it was the first African venture.
In addition, dam construction required various resources at large level such as capital, human
force, some expertise etc. Company required diversity in the different field or operation to make
minimise complexity. In order to improve their employees performance, GR managers should
motivate their workers and implement range of HRM practices to improve individual as well as
organizational efficiency or effectiveness.
REFLECTIVE REPORT
At the time of preparing group assignment, it was very difficult to gather information and
communicate with each other regarding common goal. I was afford that, we are able to complete
this task before deadline or not. In the above mention podcast, there are various issues identifies