Cross-Cultural Management: Principles, Advantages, and Challenges

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Cross-Cultural Management
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Executive Summary:
The purpose of this reflective report is to examine a cross-cultural management system. The
article looks at the differences in cultural values and beliefs of people in Organizations and
National level. It also includes insights that guide a Cross-cultural management system. As the
globalization gains momentum in the corporate network, cross-cultural management is looked
upon as a necessity. All business is conducted and affected by the diverse global environment
hence understanding the management across borders is a crucial step towards operating
successfully. In any corporation, management requires a strong contingency plan and involves
diversity. Cross culture, managers can reduce the cultural differences using divergence approach,
multiple cultural centers, convergence approach, cross-cultural training and cross-vengeance
approaches.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Global Cross-Cultural Management in Organizations and Nations:...............................................4
Problems related to Cross-cultural Management in Organizations and Nations:....................4
Advantages of Cross-cultural Management with regards to organizations and nations:.................5
Disadvantages of Cross-Cultural Management with regards to organizations and nations:...........6
Principles of Cross-Cultural Management:.....................................................................................6
Meeting the Challenges of Cultural Differences in Organizations and Nations:............................7
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................9
Reflection on Cross-Cultural Management and Culture:..........................................................10
References:....................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction:
Cross-Cultural Management revolves around managing work that has certain aspects like
differences in preferences, cultures and practices in international business or global context.
Communication is an effective way to remain respectful and prevent misunderstandings in any
given situation; hence practicing to converse across the various cultural state of affairs is
essential. Cross-Cultural Management functions on enrolling entrants that might be effective
across cross-cultural environments, regulatory environments handling for different businesses,
training and handling intercultural gaps to employees and having cross-cultural groups to
facilitate communication breaches. Intercultural Effectiveness is achieved by forging work
environment relationships with people from a diverse cultural background. Many sectors, besides
business, need to include cross-cultural management as a part of their training process.
Intercultural interactivity is increasing day by day with the technological advancements, more
people are open to a wider market, and this implies many groups of people to interact in different
cultural surroundings. In business, cross culture refers to the organization’s attempts to increase
the employees’ capability to effectively interact with associates that are professional and from
different background and nationalities (Thomas and Peterson, 2017). The new globalized
environment requires recruits who can easily adjust to different communities and work with
employees who belong from other culture. This paper revolves around cross-cultural aspects that
can be identified and evaluated based on case studies.