Developing Cross-Cultural Capability

Developing Cross-
Cultural Capability

Contents
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................................3
TASK.............................................................................................................................................................3
Difference between Europe and China ...................................................................................................3
Risk and opportunities faced by selected company at the time of expanding their business in China. . .4
Application of Hofstede model to determine cultural differences between Europe and China..............7
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Main objective of this report is to understand the concept of cross culture and its
influence in an organization. Culture defines the values, belief, attitude, norms and behavior of a
person which is transfer from generation to generation (Boud and et. al. 2018). While cross
culture concept will help in reorganizing the difference between the people working in an
organization from different nation, culture, background. The importance of cross culture will
increase after globalization of business. With the increase in Globalization Company expand
their business in different countries and they start training their employees on how to
communicate and interact with other form different culture. The need of understanding the
concept of cross culture is increase now a days as if any employee of international company will
transfer to another country then they need to have master in cross culture. For this report Spring
Line limited company is considered. It was founded by Kenneth Tipping and Bill Saunders in
1982. It is based in Northampton, England at the heart of the British Shoe-making industry. Its
traditional skills, craftsmanship and knowledge are highly valued by their customers. They start
their business with bespoke hand-crafted wooden lasts to model development. This report
include a literature review on difference between Europe and China on the bases of working
conditions. Other than this it includes various risk and opportunities related to HR practices that
HR will face at the time of operating its business activities in China along with this Hofstede
model is also included in this report.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Difference between Europe and China
According to John Dudovskiy there is a vast difference between working life cycle in
china and UK. Various differences between the countries are discuss below:
Basis U.K China
Working hour
perception
In United States the working hours
of employees are fixed and if some
employee do extra work more than
its working hours it will receive
extra pays.
In China there are specific
contracted working hours for
employees and also employees
are not receives any extra pay for
their extra work because of this
the rate of working beyond
working hours is high.
Management style In U.K managers of company
mostly use democratic and
participate management style and
includes their subordinates in
decision making process which
helps in enhancing their efficiency
and productivity and get better
ideas for decision making.
While in China managers of their
company use paternity and
authoritative management style
and all decisions are taken by
higher authorities and the
employees of company are not
included in the decision making
process.
Motivational tool In United Kingdom, monetary While in China mangers of their