Cultural Issues Faced by Huawei in International Market: Hofstede's Cultural Dimension Analysis

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Cultural-based Activity 1
Assessment 1: Part A
Hofstede’s culture dimension
The report is prepared with the motive to understand the cultural issues that might be faced by
the Huawei Company as they are looking to expand their business in the international market.
The company is Chinese based company who is willing to expand the business in the foreign
market. The below given is the analysis of the Hosfeted’s cultural dimension which shows the
way the company should react in handling the cultural issues.
CULTURAL PROFILE Description
China The business culture of China is very much
influence with the heritage culture of the country.
The company follow some set of etiquettes when
they get involved in the deal. The business culture
of the country is strongly influenced by the
Confucianism which majorly focuses on respect
related to the authority, education and age. While
meeting the Chinese people maintain the politeness
with the other parties (Doing business in China,
2018).
The deal gets close when the company will be able
to maintain a strong relationship with the other
party. The culture of the company shows the need
for the maintaining composure at the time of
meetings. Chinese extend the dealing to get the
negotiations in decision making.
Poland Poland is one of the countries that maintain a
diverse business culture. The business etiquettes of
Poland include handshake with the eye contact and
greetings depending on the situation. Poland likes
to call by the prefix pan for acknowledging the
males or Pani for females. The meeting includes

Cultural-based Activity 2
the parties and social gatherings in which they
introduce the women first and then to the men
(Kwintessential, 2018).
The culture of business in Poland said that they
judge the personal virtues and they believe that
honesty is valued in communication. They
maintain the formality in their meetings which
help them to crack the same.
South Africa In South Africa, the business meetings start with
the participants and exchange of the business
cards. The negotiations of the business involve
forming of stable personal relationship because
they want to know and trust the person with whom
they are going to deal. The responsibility related to
decision making is linked with the hierarchy of the
business (Kwintessential, 2018).
This has been found that regardless of their
cultural background, generally most of the South
Africans clearly prefer to communicate face to face
encounter instead of telephone or email.
CULTURAL DIMENSION
DESCRIPTION
The theory of Hofstede's culture
dimension includes communication
through cross-culture which shows
the effective value related to the
social business operations (Yoo,
Donthu and Lenartowicz, 2011.
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
POWER DISTANCE;
Power distance deals with the truth
that shows individual exist in the
societies are not equivalent.
CHINA/POLAND
Similarities:
- The people accept the hierarchical order in which
the follow the decision with 68 scores. In the china
80 score is maintained inequalities among the
people are accepted.