Cultural Dimensions in International Business
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Leadership ManagementProfessional DevelopmentLanguages and CulturePolitical Science
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KING’S OWN INSTITUTEMGT 201CROSS CULTURAL MANAGEMENTGROUP ASSIGNMENTMEMBERS:MAHABUB ISLAM - 11501418SALLY WIENATA – 11600029EDER RAMOS LALIC - 11502065PERISHA POUDEL - 11501220MIHYUN PARK - 11401216TITLE:CULTURAL MANAGEMENT BETWEENCAMBODIA AND TURKEY20 August 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYCultural is a very interesting topic for an open discussions or sharing experiencesfrom all over the world. Looking at today’s business developments, in every businesssector are growing and expanding more and more businesses in different countries.Yet, we agree that people from one another country might have just working inanother country with totally different cultural backgrounds. In this report, we arediscussing about the different cultural dimensions specifically from the country ofCambodia and Turkey in related to Professor Hofstede’s theories.2
TABLE OF CONTENTSTitle .............................................................................................1Executive Summary ..........................................................................2Table of Contents .............................................................................3I.History of Cambodia and Turkey......................................................4II.Cross-Cultural Issues ..................................................................5a. Power Distance ......................................................................5b. Leadership Style ..................................................................... 5c. Value System ......................................................................... 6d. Collectivism Vs. Individualism .................................................... 6e. Feminity vs. Masculinity .............................................................................. 6f. Communications .......................................................................................... 7g. Decisions Making .......................................................................................... 7h. Managing Team ............................................................................................ 9i. How business negotiation is done...................................................9III.Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 10Reference3
I.HISTORY OF CAMBODIA AND TURKEYThe name Cambodia is derived from the French word Cambodge that came fromthe word Khmer that means, “born of Kambu”. Cambodia is located betweenVietnam and Thailand under the mainland Southeast Asia. The most central placeeconomically and culturally is lowland flood plain of Tonle Sap Lake andMekong River. Though Cambodia has coastline on Thailand that coast isseparated from central flood plain through the mountains. Thereafter, during1950s roads and railroads were constructed for providing ready access to coastalport towns (Mazanec et al. 2015). The economy of the country is dominated bythe agriculture of wet rice and the iconic image of countryside is one of the ricepaddies that are scattered with sugar palms. The people of Cambodia mostlyspeak in Khmer language and the people mainly belong to the Vietnamese, Monand various other Asian languages. On the other hand, Turkey is located at crossroads of Balkans, Middle East,Caucasus and the eastern Mediterranean. About population and territory Turkeyis among larger nations and the land area of Turkey is more than any of theEuropean state. Turkey’s modern history started in the beginning of the 20thcentury and after the country became republic, the leaders from Turkey startedworking for modernizing the location and brought various fragments together thatwas formed during war. The economy of the country is still developing and it isthe wide mix of traditional agriculture and modern industry and 30% of thecountry’s employment consists of agriculture (Bakir et al. 2015). Majoragricultural products of Turkey are hazelnuts, citrus, sugar beets, grains, cotton,tobacco and livestock and the main industries of Turkey are food processing,textiles, electronics, petroleum, steel, paper, lumber and construction. Turkey’sclimate is temperate and has wet and mild winters, dry and high summers. 4
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