Cross Culture Management: Influence of Societal Culture on Managers and Management Practice

Cross Culture management

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
National culture...........................................................................................................................1
Diversity......................................................................................................................................2
Motivation and HRM...................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cross-cultural management is the study of management in a cross-cultural context. It
includes the study of the influence of societal culture on managers and management practice as
well as the study of the cultural orientations of individual managers and organization members. It
has been analysed that company must be engaged in recruiting a diverse range of workers so that
more new and innovative ideas can be gathered. It will also help firm in growing and achieving
their goals and objectives by making the organizational culture better. This will also help firm in
keeping the employees motivated. Present report will lay emphasis on Brett Jones in Tanzania
case study. Report will analyze the problems faced by company and also will provide solutions
by implementing theories related to it.
MAIN BODY
National culture
Hofstede’s Culture Dimensions Theory
This is a framework which is used to understand the differences in culture across the
countries discern the ways that business can be done across different cultures. The main goal of
the frame work is to analyse the dimensios in which culture vary. As per the Hofstede Culture
model defines six categories that can be used by the organization to define the culture. These
categories are power distance, collectivisms vs individualism, uncertainty avoidance index,
femininity vs masculinity, short-term vs long term orientation and restraint vs indulgence.
For each type of dimension it is important for the organization to develop proper analysis
in order to find the cultural effective ness of organization to run efficiently in market place.
These all considerations can helps the organization to effectively run their organization in market
place with effective work culture in organization (Hallikainen, H. and Laukkanen, T., 2018).
This can help employees to stay motivated to perform with their maximum capacity to complete
the business of organization with high effectiveness. In the power distance dimension index
power is low that the culture of the organization is encouraging for organization. In
organizational operation participative leadership style is used by the organization. For the other
dimension the individualism and collectivism approach. From the indulgence and restrain
cultural dimensions organizations follows restrain culture that the organizations suppresses
gratification of needs and regulated it through various norms. From the individualism and
collectivism culture dimension organization follows the collectivism approach in order to fulfil
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