Inter-cultural Management in Business

Inter-cultural
Management in
Business

Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
EXECUTIBVE..............................................................................................................................10

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report has been drawn on mechanism of inter-cultural management in business which
involves diversity in workforce working in an organisation. Theories, concepts and opinions of
different authors on this topic has been provided to evaluate impact of individualism and
collectivism on work. Furthermore, this has been explained in international context followed by
some strategies to have effective management and reduce cultural differences.

INTRODUCTION
The term intercultural refers to various cultures at one place having deep understanding of each
other. In the context of a business organisation, it is the exchange of ideas and cultural norms on
mutual basis for developing long lasting relationships (Barmeyer and Franklin, eds., 2016). The
management of groups belonging to different cultures become imperative in an anti so as to
reduce any differences between them. The report covers explanation and evaluation of different
views on individualism and collectivism and its impact on the workforce working in an
organisation. Further, strategies along with ethical considerations have been provided to
overcome the issues between intercultural communities.
MAIN BODY
A workplace comprises of many types of concept that are followed by the people working in
an organisation. It depends on number of factors and the environment at the place of entity. One
of these being individualism which refers to the unique personality and set of skills of the
employee. This provides every member to have their own space, make decisions, ant it perform
best in Hindi responsibilities assigned to them. Some of the features of organisational
individualism are people tend to have strong opinions and superiors appraise the achievements or
accomplishments made by them.
In addition to this, organisations following individual values know the worth of their employees
and skills put in by them. According to Weber, individualism can be defined in many terms.
However the scope is limited to one particular concept where in the social practices are done by
a single person (Taylor and Wilson, 2012). On the other hand, Luhmann has described it is an
outcome of growing social differentiation that leads to increasing the generalized symbolic
framework, which make it increasingly necessary to respectively situations, roles and activities,
which results in increasing the individual human beings. On critically evaluating, it has been
observed that the concept of individualism is not just limited to organization but extends to social
activities also. A single person may have different ways of doing a particular thing however, in
this concept an individual puts this self interest and desires at the top and above the
organizational requirements. The second definition emphasizes on development of this concept
because of evolution of different practices in this society.