Managing Across Culture PDF

   

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Managing across Culture
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Global virtual teams...............................................................................................................1Globalization..........................................................................................................................2Culture in international Management.....................................................................................3EPRG Framework..................................................................................................................3Hofstede framework...............................................................................................................4Halls Theory...........................................................................................................................6Leadership in Cultural differences.........................................................................................8Motivation in Cultural differences.........................................................................................8Communication in Cultural differences.................................................................................9Negotiation in Cultural differences......................................................................................10Decision making in cultural differences...............................................................................11Recommendations................................................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTIONGlobalization in the recent modern era has been more influential on the economies of acountry and that is why the managers needs to be keep up with changes regarding totechnological and cultural factors. Cross cultural Management involves managing the work ofteam in such a way which consider the differences in cultures, practices and preferences of theconsumers in an international context. The report main aim is to understanding the cross culturaldifferences by using theories.This report will describe the relevance and importance of understanding national culturefor an international business management. Further it also assesses the implication of managers inorder to managing the global virtual teams in an international environmental context. Further,report will also explore implication of national cross culture for global managers in the terms ofcommunication, motivation, negotiation and decision making and then provide solutions as well.Global virtual teamsGlobal virtual team is the broad concept which means that to a group of those individualswho work together and come from different geographical locations and they also rely oncommunication technologies. Their main aim is to work for the welfare of the company andattain the goal. Types:Network team: This team frequently creates and dissolved and it is usually formed todiscuss some specific topics from the area of members expertise. It is geographicallydistributed and not necessarily for same organization (Abdelzaher, Fernandez andSchneper, 2019).Pros: Global virtual team helps in retention of employees and reduce the cost andProvides new opportunities and raise profit as well.Cons: Not possible for all organization to manage internationally.Parallel team: This team is highly task oriented and also have special professionals aswell and this is also required for shorter period. Even after completion of task, the team isnot dissolved.Pros: help to complete the task as early as possible.Cons: Creates conflict and due to less physical interaction, the team are sometimes delayin achieving the goals,1
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Project development team: The team is geographically distributed and also operatefrom various time zone. The quoted team is mainly focused on creating new products andprovide ways for better customer experience. Therefore, this is run for longer period ascompared to others. Pros: Increases productivity and access to multiple market as well (Pros and Cons ofVirtual team, 2017).Cons: Creates conflicts, lack of trust and collaboration.Service team: This is located in different timezone and company hire the team forservices such as customer support, data maintenance etc. Pros: It provides new opportunities and raise profit as well.Cons: Team members are adversely affected by lack of physical interactionChallenges:Poor communication: this is the major challenge faced by the global virtual netwrokteam and it is considered the main factor that hinder innovation, effectiveness anddecision making (Ahlawat and et.al., 2016). Diverse Multicultural teams: Global virtual team constitute people from various ethnicgroup with different cultures and as a result, the team members have conflict customs andwork habits and it is a major challenge of Project development team.Timezone difference: As member reside in different location, so time zone difference isconsider another challenge and it also creates lack of trust as welland it is the majorchallenge of service team. GlobalizationGlobalization is that process in which the people, companies and government areinteracted and it also helps in leading to increases interconnectedness of national economies.From the past 30 years, it has been analyses that globalization is increases due to development inInformation Communication Technology, transport and communication. Further due to increasein social media which mean that national boundaries become irrelevant due to use of new formsof communication and marketing. Culture in international ManagementInternational Management: it refers to understanding the international economies,leading changes in corporation who operates at international level and then creating global2
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