Cross Cultural Management Assesment

Running head: CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
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Executive summary
The aim of the report is to analyse the cross-cultural management of Congo and Norway. The
various cultural dimension o f these two countries are analysed in this report. beside the
cultural dimensions the differences in the communication style, management style, decision
making process, leadership style and the value system of the countries are highlighted in this
report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................4
Cultural dimensions...................................................................................................................4
Communication........................................................................................................................10
Decision making.......................................................................................................................11
Managing teams.......................................................................................................................12
Value system............................................................................................................................13
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The cross-cultural management deals with the various cultural issues that prevails in
the business world of two countries. Different countries in the world have different cultural
issues and these cultural aspects impacts differently in the working culture of that country.
Some countries have more masculine work culture while some cultures have feminist work
culture. Some countries have culture of influencing others on the basis of social status while
some countries give more emphasis on caste and religious factors.
With the improvements in the technology and the liberalisation in the global
commerce the organisations of different countries used to do business in different countries
and that creates a problem in the management of the cross-cultural issues. The various cross-
cultural issue that derive are related with the communication, leadership style, cultural
dimensions, decision making, managing team and value systems (Alon et al 2016).
Discussion
In this report two different countries are selected these are Congo and Norway. The
main purpose of this report is to highlight the different cross-cultural issues of these two
countries (Jackson 2016).
Congo and Norway are two different counties having different cultural issues. Both
the countries have their own cultural behaviour and the peoples of these two countries used to
have different communication and leadership style which they used to operate their business
world. Congo is an African country which is also known as republic of Congo. On the other
hand, Norway is a European country that has an independent identity in the areas of literature
art and music. Congo is not that culturally rich as the country is suffering with poor economic
condition (Richter et al 2017). The various aspects of these two counties are discussed below