International Intercultural Management - Assignment
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International Intercultural Management - Assignment
Added on 2020-04-21
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Running head: INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENTINTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENTName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note
1INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENTTable of contentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Cross-cultural Analysis and evaluation of model............................................................................4Hofstede Model...............................................................................................................................4Comparing Saudi Arabia’s culture with the culture of India and Russia in Hofstede Insights.......5Hall Model.......................................................................................................................................8Comparison of Saudi Arabia’s culture with the culture of India and Russia in the context of HallModel...............................................................................................................................................9Cross cultural managerial analysis................................................................................................10Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11References......................................................................................................................................13
2INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENTIntroductionThe aim of this report is to highlight on the international intercultural management. In theglobalised world and the development of economic interdependence among the nations, culturehas been becoming vital in contemporary management of the business. At present, the expansionof globalization of business influences the culture on company’s variables. These variables havebeen considered as one of the important determinant in the organization’s success of doing theirbusiness operation in the global market (Spencer-Oatey 2015). Culture is defined as the depositof beliefs, knowledge, values, religion, attitudes, roles, relations and the possessions that theindividuals acquire through generations. Language as well as regional characteristics affects thebusiness culture with the help of their core values. The globalization of a particular economyalong with cross border alliance and ventures has introduced huge reforms in the aspect ofinternational consumer relations as well as intercultural management (Barmeyer and Franklin2016). This led to a rise in appreciation by organization and hence managing differences inculture can be one of the key factors in doing things in effective way across borders. Interculturalmanagement refers to the interdisciplinary field in human resource that is basically concernedwith aiding communication and effectual interaction of the people across borders (Cassell andBlake 2012). In this study, the culture of Saudi Arabia has been compared to the national culturesof other two countries that includes India and Russia. This study also highlights on the cross-cultural analysis of Saudi Arabia with respect to the other two countries. It also includesevaluation of theoretical models such as Hofstede and Hall that has been applied in the cross-cultural analysis.
3INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MANAGEMENTThe geographical data of Saudi Arabia reflects their total population, religious affiliations,language, level of education etc. Recent statistics highlights that the total population of thisnation has been steadily increasing over the last few years. Near about 51%off the totalpopulation of Saudi Arabia is below 25 years of age. Saudi Arabia’s cultural environment ishighly conservative and specially adheres to elucidation of Islamic religious law. However, menand women are not usually allowed to attend the events jointly and are also separated in theirworkplace. Thus, there has been no religious freedom within this nation. According to the recentestimates, the Islam comprises of two-thirds of the total population. In addition, other smallcommunities and Christian population are also of uncertain size. Saudi Arabia’s official languageis Arabic (Deresky 2017). The culture of India and Russia has been totally different with respectto Saudi Arabia. The culture of India has been labeled as merger of different cultures andcivilizations. In Russia, there are more than 100 languages spoken and the religion has been oneof the basic components of their people’s life. However, religious freedom exists in these twocountries and hence men and women are not discriminated in the workplace. There are somemajor inter cultural problems that each individual deals with in Saudi Arabia includes-Each person in this nation have confusion for lack of boundary between their private lifeand businessVarious hierarchy levelsLack of knowledge in the working processHowever, the other two nations must consider the following points for preventing thesecultural problems. These includes-
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