Cross Cultural Management: National Culture, Leadership, and Motivation

Cross cultural

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.................................................................................................................................3
National Culture........................................................................................................................3
Leadership.................................................................................................................................5
Motivation and HRM................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Cross cultural management is defined as the examination of management study in which
cross cultural dimensions are undertaken. This is associated with the study of influencing
societal culture over managers and various practices of management (Beugelsdijk and Welzel,
2018). This is known as the essential aspect under which assistance is provided to the
organisation in order to deal with people who are coming from different background of culture.
In current world organisations are serving to their customer in global level. For manager of the
organisation this is imperative that they keep proper understanding regarding varied culture so
that they can manage workforce in effective manner and attain objective of the business as well.
Cross-cultural management is helpful in understanding employees in such a way that people
can be interconnected to each other. This report is based on case study of Brett Jones in
Tanzania. The major topic covered in this report is leadership, ethics and CSR along with
organisational culture.
MAIN BODY
National Culture
National culture is defined as those set of norms and beliefs which are having high
implication in changing behaviour which are being shared by a nation. This characteristic is
associated with language, religion, ethnicity and traditions. National culture is defined as one of
the vital component which enables in enhancing performance and overall profitability. The
Hofstede culture is used in order to compare various national societies in which six dimensions
are included which are not related with each other. The various dimensions are termed as power
distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs collectivism, muscularity v/s feminism, long
term v/s short term goals and at last indulgence v/s restraints. All these dimensions are
representing national culture and are having independent identity depending on countries. For
respective case study Brett Jones understood that he is required to learn various concepts of
different culture.
One of the major problems with HG is lacking within perception regarding home
corporate and understanding about economics, politics and culture existed within country. The