Effects of Regional Cultural Issues on Corporate Organisational Culture

International
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
TASK 1a.....................................................................................................................................3
Critically explore how corporate organisational culture of Allianz is affected by regional
cultures...................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1b.....................................................................................................................................5
Write conclusions related to effects of regional cultural issues on corporate organisational
culture of multinational organisation as it organise its business globally by giving examples
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TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................7
Evaluate the evidence about why Expatriation is still so widely used in a globalised
economy and examine the causes of expatriate failure. What are the implications of
findings for the HR Director and their planning for staffing the new project?......................7
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES.........................................................................................................................13
Books & Journal:..................................................................................................................13
Online References....................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
International Management is to be defined as a importing and exporting of
Management activities across the national borders. In this contemporary business
environment, it is critically important to understand the importance of International
Management in business so that decision making is done appropriately (AlMazrouei, 2020).
Allianz SE, which is the global financial service company headquartered in Germany. The
organisation mainly focuses on insurance and asset Management. It has many subsidiaries
such as alliance global investors, alliance France and many more. The company is located at
various locations like Brazil, Shanghai, South Africa and many more. This task focuses on
corporate organisational culture and how it is affected by the regional cultures of different
locations.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1a
Critically explore how corporate organisational culture of Allianz is affected by regional
cultures
Regional cultures refers to a complete set of environment which includes culture
activities and are being carried out as illustrated by residents of the region which depicts their
ethnic, linguistic, and culture regional identity. There are different types of regional culture
which are based on resident’s traditions activities values and beliefs. Moreover it is also seen
that it is necessary for individual to be well aware about to which religion culture they
actually belong (Ashta, 2019). With changing period of time, it has been analysed that
corporate sector is mostly affected by regional cultures as because different types of people
have different thinking and values and accordingly they behave and act in corporate
organisation. Allianz is located at global scale and including the head office there are three
locations of which regional culture affects the enterprise corporate organisational culture at
wider scale. The impact of regional culture on different location is further discussed below-
 Germany- Germany is famous for its history and which scale of people which also
reflects about me European thought politics and art for over a thousand years. The
change of history has also impacted upon the culture which includes Christian values
art philosophy, logic reason and many more. Central Germany is an economic and
culture region in Germany. There are also different types of most popular region in
Germany like North rhine-Westphalia in the west with a population of almost 80

million people. This German culture has been also affected the corporate
organisational culture of Allianz as because it generates more employment in Munich
and it also has a positive culture as reviewed by the employees. This location of
selected company is being affected by regional culture as because people of Germany
are thrifty, sensible and also respect each other's privacy. Due to this, region Culture
Company has to follow all the legal structure in systematic manner.
 South Africa- According to the Africa report, it has been examined that alliance is
booming rapidly in East and South Africa as due to the number of services used by
people of the country. Moreover it has been also analysed that they have been
focusing on partnership in in East and South Africa with many insurance companies
on the basis of which they are able to expand their business at larger scale. Also the
culture of South Africa impact on enterprise services and future goals as because the
culture of two groups which are Zullu and Xhosa mostly preferred the insurance
services and also are the largest groups in South Africa (Benbya, 2018).
 Brazil- Brazil is a diversified country and the culture of Brazil consists of indigenous
Indians Africans Portuguese which modernize the Brazilian life standard. The culture
of Brazil is western and it motivates more diverse culture and nature globally. In
context of Allianz, Brazil as many cities in which most of the corporate sectors are
located such as Sau Paulo, Rio De Janerio etc. Brazil is mostly known for its
inequality in regards of income. The business culture of Brazil is being developing at
rapid scale. With the consideration of Allianz, they also had been impacted by culture
of Brazilian as because most of the people in country are poor or comes from the
middle class family. This makes it positive impact on organisational culture of Allianz
because they are able to provide better insurance services to the public. Organisational
culture of company is affected by Brazilian visual culture as because people in the
country focus towards their work and disturb others from what they are doing
(Bonazza, 2018).
 Shanghai- Shanghai is a rich economy country which has different types of business
cultures and accordingly they allowed other foreign countries to do their business
activities. The business culture of Shanghai is impacted by Confhcianism. This
concept States and reflects about the relationship network which is important and is
based on values of solidarity loyalty modesty and courtesy. In viewpoint of Allianz, it
is also located in Shanghai and provides insurance services on the basis of currency of
China. Also, the organisational culture is affected by regional culture of Shanghai

because people of the country in China have different strategies and accordingly they
implement they work with an enterprise. It makes it difficult for selected organisation
to conduct their business processes and other units properly.
Before the above discussed the matter shows that culture is important which is ready to be
focused by organisational sector so that it is easier to achieve mission vision and objectives
without facing any issues. This is also analysed that it is necessary to identify the culture of
organisation and other regional cultures on the basis of which it is easy to make decisions and
which results in positive relationship amongst people.
TASK 1b
Write conclusions related to effects of regional cultural issues on corporate organisational
culture of multinational organisation as it organise its business globally by giving examples
Culture is statement, characteristic as well as knowledge of specific group of individual
person encompassing social religion, language and many more. It provides facility related to
growth of group that is assessed by implementing social pattern that is unique to the group.
Therefore it is determined as a cumulative deposit of skill and knowledge, beliefs, values,
religion and concept of universe that is acquired by individual person during particular phase
of time period. In addition to this, it has been analysed that culture is determined as a word
that is used for method of life of group of individual person through which they perform
different things in an appropriate manner (De Silva, 2020).
Regional culture signifies culture in which whole of environment and cultural activity
executed by resident of region that reflect ethnic, historical, linguistic as well as cultural
regional tradition that generate precondition for improvement of cultural & social
competence in region which satisfy need & requirement of modern society. Organisation
corporate culture signifies the belief as well as behaviour that signify organisation employees
and its administration interact and manager outside transaction of business organisation in an
appropriate manner. In addition to this, the corporate culture improves organically from
cumulative traits of individual person in which the company hire. Therefore it is necessary to
increase understanding regarding corporate culture and also increase knowledge in respect of
how regional culture imposes direct effect on organisation culture during particular phase of
time period (Gao, 2019). On the basis of above given paragraph, it is analyse that there are
different types of regional cultural issues such as difficulties arise in strategy implementation,
difference in language as well as problem arise in getting engaged with other individual

person that enforces direct effect on corporate culture of organisation of Allianz because they
execute its business at global level. Therefore, it has been analysed that regional culture is
useful in conducting cultural activity that is implemented by resident of region which reflect
linguistic, historical ethnic that pre-condition for development of cultural competence that
satisfy need of modern society.
EPRG Framework
It is a type of framework which is used by multinational organisations in order to
carry out International process of businesses and also about how the International
Management orientation is done. It comprises of several elements which are explained as
follows-
Ethnocentric orientation- This is a kind of orientation which is used by enterprises
in order to explain the business at international level but focuses on National country.
Example- Sony, Hitachi are some of the multination firm which comes under this category.