Cross-Cultural Management: Reflection, Interpretation and Action Plan

Cross-Cultural Management
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Introduction
Intercultural interaction is the most effective for performing various actions in the world
(Thomas, and Peterson, 2017). The major weakness in this sector that I face is the language and
the meaning of the word. This is the primary weakness that I face as a different culture have
different perception regarding a single word. I am unable to share my point of view or present
my thinking when am conversing with people from the different culture. My culture is Lao
which is having language pronunciation as well as vocabulary within the people of north and
south. The language of Lao has been borrowing from the Sanskrit as well as from the Pali in the
literature (Bird, and Mendenhall, 2016). This is the basic reason that I face a huge challenge for
communicating with the people of different culture. The weakness needs to be rectified for
performing an essential and valuable activity within the field. The paper provides the effective
reflection on the view of the cross-cultural management and also the way to maintain the
weakness of communicating with others. The paper also provides the effective action plan for
maintaining effective communication process in the cross-cultural management.
Reflection
The cross-cultural management course helps me to understand the various cultural activity within
the field. All these learning material from this course help me to develop my skill and provide a
suitable view of the cultural activity. My weakness is that I am unable to communicate
effectively with the cross-cultural people and in this, the course cross-cultural management
provides effective measures. In the course, the first activity is to get introduced to the cross-
cultural management then the second topic is to understand the nature of culture. There is
numerous culture in the world like mine is Lao and other people with other culture. Every culture
has different language and to understand the effective cultural theory (Tjosvold, 2017). Then
from this course, I have also learned about the cultural theory of Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck, then
Hofstede and Fons Trompenaar. The cultural theories provide effective knowledge on the cross-
cultural management (French, 2015).
Kluckhohn & Strodtbeck provides a view on human nature as well as the relationship to nature.
Hofstede provides an effective view of the power distance, then the individualism, masculinity or
the uncertainty avoidance of the culture. Then beyond the cultural framework, the effective view
is on the activity that is being performed by the cross-cultural management. One of the most
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