Intercultural Business in Management

Intercultural business in
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Evaluating different views on how individualism and collectivism impact the way we work...1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Individualism and collectivism both are important aspects of company. These both things plays a
vital role in organization. Individualism is also important at some point, where group can't work.
On the other, where group can work there individualism can't work. There are many projects in
company, in which individual don't need help of other employees and want to do work alone so
that there is no chance of mistake and if any mistake happens also then all the risk is only on one
individual. In some projects which need a team then at that time organization needs collectivism.
But it is a fact when you are working in a company collectivism is must, as individualism can't
work.
MAIN BODY
Evaluating different views on how individualism and collectivism impact the way we work.
According to Steinmann and Scherer, (2015) Individualism means where person don't want to
cooperate with team and want to all work at his own. Individual person is always having good
capability then others, but the thing which make individual weaker from collectivism is that,
group contains different type of individual and each individual is having different thinking and
perception, so whenever any problem arises they handle situation more easily as compare to
individual. Individualism contains so many positive things and negative things also. If people see
individual outside organization will be different as he will always look far from crowd and never
believe in following other people and will always believe in making great out of himself. They
are generally self-centred people who mainly focus on their positive and negative points only and
they never believes in politics.
According to Fatalaki, (2017) Person doing all work alone is able to get the knowledge
of solving problems alone with minimum help. Individual also takes decision very fast, as
compare with team or a group, it is because when person is working individually there is no one
who can interfere while decision making. Individual person is also a high risk taker, as he has to
take all the risk at his own there is no one who will be responsible for the work. Individual
persons never feels alone, as it becomes their habit to do all their work alone. Individualism
always create a person different from other as he has to do all the work by self, when he falls he
has to lift himself there is very few people who will help him in lifting. Individual working is
free from conflicts as there is no other person include in it. The best aspect of individualism is
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