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Running head: INTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN BUSINESSINTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN BUSINESSName of the student:Name of University:Author Note:
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INTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS1Analysis of the current situation: As the company has its base in Australia, there are various cross-cultural issueswhich appear in the management and affect the proper functioning of the company. Despitethe fact that the teams follow accepted forms of arrangement, strategizing as well asoperation, the team based organization techniques are still being evolved (Gelfand et al.,2017). One of these techniques include effective management of teams with huge culturaldiversity. The current situation of the company is very risky where there are problems withlanguage and communication gap, style and time of operating and diverse dominatinginfluence. Communication is one of the chief concerns that create problems in this cross culturalorganization (Vogel et al., 2015). As the parent company is in Australia, the dominatinglanguage is obviously English. In other subsidiaries, the employees not always understand themeaning of all the words hence often leads to misinterpretation. In the trainings or meetingsof the employees, the communication gap has led to conflict and lack of clarity among theteam members as well as the relation among the mangers with the local employees. thecompany does not have international virtual team which helps to interact across the countries(Karin et al., 2014). Therefore, the company lacks essential collaborative measures among theteams.Due to communication gap among the employees lead to information gap which isanother problem area in this company. The method of sharing knowledge from top to bottomor horizontally is not taking pace in the organization (De Mooij, 2015). This is one of thechief reasons why the inter cultural issues are being formed and disturbing the properfunctioning of the organization.
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INTERCULTURAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS2Decision making is one of the chief activity that helps the companies to proceed n theglobal markets. The international virtual teams working in different time zones lack mutuallyagreeable time band for direct communication hence there are issues of divergence anddisagreement (DesAutels et al., 2015). Working approaches and styles of different cultures are different in various counties.Some of these subsidiaries follow the working style of the Asians and some work likeAfrican culture. Some work cultures make people uncomfortable with the independence oftheir job and want to be guided and dominated by their superiors but some preferindependence of work (Bird & Mendenhall, 2016). Therefore, the managers face problemswhile working with the employees from different culture. Most of the teams of thisorganization have a mix of styles, where the individualistic team members can prove to beaggressive team player while some not-so-individualistic ones can merge into a team andcontribute to the team process. The dominant groups within the cross cultural teams try toswing the decisions towards a direction with which they feel comfortable with (Jiang, Gollanand Brooks 2015). This have created a frustrating environment for the rest of the team.As the cultures are different in different subsidiaries, the managers are being able tomotivate the employees accordingly (Berry, 2015). As the company do not have any propertraining method that can help the managers to learn to work with diverse cultures, they arenot being able to respect the diversity of the team of employees. They do not possessexperience to deal with the diverse team environment hence trying to implement the rules andpolicies of the parent company culture for which the employees of other subsidiaries are notready (Tenhiälä et al. 2016). As the expectation of different cultural teams are different, themanagers need to motivate as well as encourage them accordingly. Some cultures arerestricted hence do not need holidays and other elements of enjoyment in their lives, hencethese people are to be rewarded through want they want. These expectations are not similar
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