CROSS CULTURE MANAGEMENT

Cross cultural
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
FIRST TOPIC .................................................................................................................................1
National culture............................................................................................................................1
SECOND TOPIC ............................................................................................................................4
Communication and negotiation..................................................................................................4
THIRD TOPIC.................................................................................................................................5
Ethics and CSR............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cross cultural management is defined to managing people addition to things which
involve distinct culture background. The concept studies tech the ways to handle conflicts and
disputes of heterogeneity culture together with actualising effective management. It assist entities
in dealing with individuals that belong to different cultural backgrounds. Moreover, it comprises
power of society culture on management practices as well as styles of manager. The main
objective of the concept is to build feasible business structure along with management
mechanisms across various culture inheritance (Tjosvold, 2017). It plans to utilise organisational
resources that includes exert potential values effectively and efficiently.
The case study is all about manifestation concerned related to cross cultural management
team at the time when Hydro Generation (HG) made decision for business expansion in
unfamiliar culture. The business is a major dam project in city of Africa that is Tanzania.
Graham Steinberg and Brett Jones are responsible person for the project. Both have distinct
views and ways to achieve ends of project and are eager for accommodating styles of Tanzania
for doing business. In the business, Jones is project liaison who is specialist for representing new
approach of Hydro Generation and have diverse threefold tasks to complete. Dam construction
requires huge capital amount and also faces various issues.
The report is based on Brett Jones in Tanzania and covers various topics. The selected
three topics are national culture, Communication and Negotiation, Ethics and CSR. At same time
the two issues selected for focus are tribal rituals and nepotism.
FIRST TOPIC
National culture
National culture refers to underlying values, beliefs, assumptions along with ways to
interact which results in contributions towards unique psychological addition to social
surrounding of people of nation (El Ghoul and Zheng, 2016). In relevance to case study, Graham
Steinberg who is vice president of Hydro generation (HG) that is based on United States. In this,
different people like Brett Jones, Lawrence Bertelet and many more are hired for the dam project
in Tanzania. From the practices and working of Jones, Graham Steinberg lack satisfaction and
feels that it is having negative impact on culture of entity. It is developing negative impacts on
behaviour of employees and both, Steinberg and Jones are not comfortable of satisfies with
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