PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Project Management and Cultural Differences
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Question No 1
How does people coming from different cultures affect project success? What kind of risks
does this impose on the project?
Answer to Question No 1
The constantly changing global business environment and the understanding of different
business cultures have now became an essential part and a pre requisite for the success of the
business. According to, Kerzner and Kerzner (2017) the proper and effective understanding and
management of the people who work in the same company but are categorized under different
cultures can help to gain success for the organization. The understanding of the cultures and
taking the right steps for the organizations helps them to ensure success for the organization.
Cross Cultural management can be viewed as an organizational knowledge resource which can
be managed. The success of the project has been extensively examined in the project
management literature. The success of the project depends totally on the workforce and the
difference in the culture will have a negative impact on the organizational success. The main
problems in the presence of the different kinds of organizational cultures will be the absence of a
proper communication that can stand as a barrier to smooth operations. The absence of trust and
inability to understand each other will act as a major hurdle to the different kinds of projects that
may be undertaken by the organization.
Binder (2016) has said that the cultural risks can attract a number of different other
related risks to the completion of the following project. This includes Uncertainty Avoidance,
Long Term orientation, Traditional Risks, Language based risks, Legislation risks and many