Managing Across Cultures: Issues and Solutions for Tesco

Managing Across Cultures

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Advising company about they may be experiencing...................................................................3
Presenting solutions to Tesco in order to secure high performance for above issues..................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Managing cross culture is one that is ability of leaders to accept, respect and appreciate
certain cultural similarities and differences within the workplace or organization. Also,
managerial strategy to overcome such differences is defined as the set of plans that leaders
formulates and implements for employees to ensure smooth working. Moreover, the current
study is based on Tesco that very well-known retail organization that is selling variety of goods
in different parts of the world. Furthermore, the current report will be divided into two parts
where firstly issues faced by Tesco will be discussed and in next part elements to resist such
challenges will be described
This report will advise company about the cross cultural differences and internal
environment issues that are impacting the productivity of employees in negative manner. Further
the report will outline the reason behind conflicting opinions and bad impact on competitive edge
of the company through hiring the foreign managers for various business operations. In the other
part of current report the best directions to cited company will be provided through discussing
various elements like motivation, leadership, communication etc. that will help in best cross
cultural management within the workplace. Lastly, the report will describe the importance of
effective international staffing through using various business models in detail.
MAIN BODY.
Advising company about they may be experiencing
For company like Tesco that is operating on large scale in various region it is very
important that diverse teams are managed in most efficient manner so that work could be carried
out systemically (Maheshkar and Sharma, 2018). However, this not possible for the firm due to
the conflicting opinions and changing attitudes of employees within the workplace. Moreover,
Tesco own of the most common issues that the firm has been facing is as follows:
 Difference in foreign managers working: It has been seen that due to operating in
various regions the firm has to face the challenge of making the employees work under
different foreign managers in the systematic manner in various countries. Further, this is
because of reason that managers that are been hired by the firm have the different style of
working and dealing with certain managerial things (Jaiswal, Kathuria and Karhade ,
2022). Moreover, these managers are not easily accepted by the masses due to problems
of communication's among them. Also, the manager way of handling the problems might

sometimes not proved useful when the situations are the complex. Thus, such type of
events only means that there is only wastage of the money and adding up of unnecessary
costs within the business in long run. Also, there are problems of cultural difference
among the employees and the managers that might allow them to perform certain duties
and cause many hindrances. Moreover, it can be said that foreign managers take time to
understanding the host countries laws and regulations and communicate same to the
employees thus falling to meet certain expectations of company in due course of time
 Productivity is low: Moreover, this is another issue the company might be experiencing
as foreign managers that is been hired by the Tesco is not very well aware of the
organizational culture and its working (Mkrttchian and et.al., 2021). Hence, it takes lot of
time to understand each aspect of the business and during this process often employees'
productivity is reportedly seen very low. Furthermore, employees are not able to
understand the new concepts brought in by foreign managers and hence work in carried
out either by their own knowledge of the understanding or through research which affects
the overall productivity in attainment of the organizational goals and objectives. Also, in
way the company is also not able to identify the major risks that are affecting the working
of the Tesco and therefore the new managers fails to devise the best strategies within the
business (Glinkowska-Krauze, Chebotarov and Chebotarov, 2022). Hence, this issue that
is currently experienced by the firm have to be resolved in way that there is not negative
impact on the quality of the products of the company and also the chances of conflicts
within the workplace are very minimum. Moreover, this issue is further increased when
local business customer are not identified by the managers at the time of the joining, and
they only rely on those business practices that have been previously worked out for them
in positive manner some other country or regions.
 Psychological barriers: Managing the cross cultural teams is also big issue that the
management of Tesco has to face in order to achieve certain organizational objectives.
Furthermore, it has been seen that while working with different managers employees
within the workplace often feels less authentic and incompetent. Thus, they feel that there
efforts are not ben recognized and hence there is lack of appropriate motivation among
them to perform certain duties. Moreover, working in such kind of mental thinking only
creates barrier for the firm continuous growth and success in the long run. Also, such