THE CULTURAL COMPARISON PAPER

Running Head: CULTURAL COMPARISON
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Cultural Comparison Paper
Indian Culture versus Canadian Culture
(Student Details: )
3/4/2020

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Comparing the Culture of Canada and India in terms of Human
Behaviour
The paper is focused on comparing the two cultures including Indian and Canadian
culture. Post-reading Chapter 2 of the textbook, the two cultures will be compared while
considering human resource practices. This discussion is going to consider the different
experiences with Canadian workers as well as their behaviours as compared to Indian
workers. In this way, the essay is going to identify the key differences between India and
Canada. Thus, this will be considering human resource practices, workplace ethics as well as
other aspects of the workplace’s business activities in relation to the chosen two cultures.
Culture is referred to an umbrella term which is used in order to encompass social
norms and behaviours in human societies that includes a wide range of factors such as
customs, habits, laws, knowledge, capabilities, beliefs, arts and others. Indian culture consists
of thousands of different and unique cultures of a diverse range of communities and religions
along with difference in customs, architecture, dance, religions, music, food, and languages
through the country (Correa et al., 2017). On the other hand, Canadian culture represents a
diverse range of political, social, literary, artistic, humour and culinary elements that are
considered as the representatives of Canadians and Canada (Karakowsky & Guriel, 2014). In
general, past experiences, as well as research data, are suggesting that Indians are the
valuable members within the Canadian community. From the cultural comparison
perspective, key standards are used like quality education, standards of living, less
bureaucracy, infrastructure, corruption, high diversity, population and many more. It has been
identified that Indian people often migrate to Canada for reasons such as work, leisure and
work purposes (Mahajan & Toh, 2017). This has affected the human resources practices in
both of the countries which are India and Canada.
It is well aware that the culture of the two countries can be compared on the basis of
several aspects and basis. Here, it is worth mentioning that corporate culture always reflects
the culture of origin. There is a huge difference between the two cultures which ultimately
affect the business done by the people living in both places (Christiansen & Bryan, 2013).
These living patterns of both of the country’s people which gradually influence the sources of
money.

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Further, culture consist of the common patters of beliefs and values which can affect
the behaviour of human beings. There are differences in the cultural practices of India and
Canada which certainly affects the decision-making patterns of both managers and
employees. The behaviour of Indian culture on employees can be seen from the fact that the
employees are loyal and committed to the organization as they have collectivism nature
which persuades them to fulfill their responsibilities which allows them to act collectively as
part of the group. On the contrary, considering the socio-economic perceptions of the
organization, the managers and the employees are less likely to be loyal towards their
respective organization which can be seen from the tendency of the employees to have
individualism (Mahajan & Toh, 2017). These people are expected to be focusing on their
personal growth rather than thinking as a whole.
Furthermore, cultural practices of the groups of the people can affect their duties and
obligations towards the organizational practices. Indian culture is precisely based on showing
of respect to others people which affects their level of participation into the business
activities. Rather, fatalism can be seen in the Canada which affects the employee’s
responsibility seeking behaviour. Also, Indian managers have certain values and beliefs
which is different from the Canada (Correa et al., 2017). Canadian culture is based on the
higher job enrichment and also focusing on higher supervision which clearly lacks in the
Indian culture. Also, there are similarities in the reward allocation for both of the nation or
can be said that there are little differences in the tendency of giving rewards to the
employees.
In the light of the Indian culture, there are traditional values in the familism which
have emphasis on the patriarchal and patrilineal relationships within the concerned family
unit which can affect the seniority and gender within the workplace and the social life of the
employees. The relationships go beyond the vertical boundaries of family values. Besides, the
Canadian culture is different from the Indian culture in which paternalism is authoritative and
seeks to makes the employees less responsive and highly relying on the personal values
without showing respect to the other religion (Karakowsky & Guriel, 2014). Further, human
resources practices vary in both of the countries being affected by the internal work culture.
Also, it is also been seen that the employees within the Indian culture are less active than
people of Canadian culture which can affect the practices of organization relating to human
resources.

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In whole, after comparing the cultures of the two chosen nations Canada and India,
key differences have been found successfully. Based on human resource practices
differences, the paper has found key variations among the workplace cultures of the Indians
and Canadians. In addition to that, the cultures of the two nations have compared in order to
examine the kinds of employee behaviour and the possible practices of human resource
management. It can be said that both the nations are having a similar culture at some points
whereas differs hugely at other points. In this way, cultural comparison of India and Canada
is successful in the identification of the similarities of the people’s culture and their possible
effect the behavioural patterns.

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