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INTERNATIONAL HRM 1
Complexity of cross culture in international business environment
International business is a source for organizations by which they are able to expand their
business on the international level. But at the same time, it is one of the true facts that every land
has its own culture which and it is very important for the business world to understand the
complexity of this culture. Cross-culture differences are mainly connected with some of the
significant facts which include both low contexts as well as high context (Story et al., 2014).
Low context cross-culture is linked with the countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada,
United States and so on. High context cross-culture is linked with countries like Russia and other
such countries which do not believe in a shared context. In cross-culture differences, one of the
important challenges related to business operations for HR director is building trust. In
international business operation, one of the important contexts is trust-building because it makes
the native community that foreign organization is fair and ethical. In this situation, one of the
best options of HR director is to send their executive within the community to understand their
values and comfortable level. For suppose HR director want to operate on the land of Japan
(Sekiguchi, Froese & Iguchi, 2016). In this situation, HR director must direct their executives to
spend their time with the members of the community on the dining table because people of Japan
believe those people which are sharing food with them will not break their trust. Therefore HR
director must be competent to analyze the aspects of the foreign country culture which can help
them in build trust environment for their business operations. HR director must gather through
information which includes culture, customers, values and other important aspects which can
impact the trust process related to potential business operations.
Another important challenge related to cross culture international business is the
sensitivity of culture in which HR director must be aware of sensitivity of the situation. Various
countries such as France, US and other European have their different belief related to cultural
sensitivity such as in some country a silence of few seconds is considered enough to break the
complete conversation. While countries which are within the Asian zone believes that a few
seconds of silence ensures that person understands the importance of matter (Gibbs & Boyraz,
2015). In this situation, HR director must be competent enough to explore the difference between
cultural sensitivity in order to expand their business effectively in foreign country.