Management Podcase Case Study 2022

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Podcast.................................................................................................................................2
Organizational Culture.....................................................................................................2
Problems......................................................................................................................2
Solutions......................................................................................................................3
Communication and Negotiation.....................................................................................4
Problems......................................................................................................................4
Solutions......................................................................................................................6
CSR and Ethics................................................................................................................8
Problems......................................................................................................................8
Solutions......................................................................................................................9
Reflection...........................................................................................................................11
References and Bibliography.............................................................................................15

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Organizational Culture
The organizational culture followed within Hydro Generation might be explained with
the help of the Hofstede model. The Hofstede model discusses five different factors that assist
the development of the given organization within the concerned territorial boundaries. The
Hofstede model states that the differences in the power dimension and the other culturally
influential matters tend to affect the organizational culture as well. The given case study suggests
that the company has been facing certain issues due to the differences in the organizational
culture of Tanzania and that of the United States.
Problems
The two major problems with the organizational culture as demonstrated within the given
case study refers to the lack of the proper communication between the managers and the local
employees and the lack of diversity among the employees of the organization.
 Lack of the employee diversity
The concerned case study portrays the fact that there exists a high cultural gap among the
members of the workforce that have been serving in the lower hierarchical levels within
the organization and those who have been employed as the expatriate managers within
the given organization. However, the company is known to have not been having a
greater amount of employee diversity within the project. The expatriate managers are
observed not to be well trained in the cultural matters that are followed by the locals who
have been residing in the area (Fellows and Liu 2016). This has resulted in the matters

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that are related to the lack of the proper communication among the members associated
with the project.
 Lack of proper leadership
The leadership within the given organization is observed to have been improper in nature.
The leadership styles that have been implemented within the dam construction site tends
not to be properly applicable in terms of the conditions that are being faced by the
organization. The company has been employing members of the local community within
the construction project. This had led to the conditions within the organization wherein
the concerned organization needs to implement the proper leadership in order help in the
development of the construction project (Samuel et al. 2017). The lack of the proper
leadership has led to the lack of the proper motivation on the part of the employees
associated with the project. The lack of the proper leadership might further result from
the lack of maintenance of the organizational culture within the project. This in turn
might lead to the conditions wherein the company might lack the required improvement
of competitive advantage within the international markets.
Solutions
The issues that have been highlighted within the concerned organizational culture might
be resolved with the help of solutions that have been suggested as under.
 Employee diversity
There is observed a difference among the cultural factors that are presented within the
country of Tanzania as compared to the cultural factors presented within the territorial
boundaries of the United States. The power index of Tanzania is 70 (Waisfisz 2015). This
reveals the fact that people belonging to the Tanzanian cultural background are known to