Cross Cultural Management

Cross Cultural
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Category 1: National Culture.......................................................................................................1
Category 2: Leadership ...............................................................................................................2
Category 3: Motivation Theory & HRM ....................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Cross culture refers to bridging gap between different people of different nation and
religion in business. It focus of reducing difference related to religion, ethics between them and
taking all of them together to work for common goal. For a business working on international
level, it is important to understand need of cross culture as it can affect their business
productivity. This project report include study of Hydro generation, a US based company. In the
organisation, people are of different background and culture and are working on a project which
is in another location in Tanzania in Africa. This project report include national culture of
country and their issue related to cross culture. It also include leadership to manage cross culture
with motivation and HRM practised in Tanzania.
MAIN BODY
Category 1: National Culture
Nation culture refers to culture of country, their economic condition, language and
culture (Bird and Mendenhall, 2016). Tanzania has different culture for employees of HG as they
are from different country. National culture of Tanzania is described in following terms:
Higher Unemployment: Unemployment rate in Tanzania is higher which indicate there
are more unskilled employees. People their hired through word of mouth as through family
members. It can be beneficial and non beneficial for business. Benefit of unemployment in
Tanzania is that they can get cheap labour for their project of Dam construction whereas
disadvantage of high unemployment rate is that there are unskilled employee which are
ineffective.
Lower GDP level: In Tanzania, GDP level of country is comparatively low which can
create problem for business. It indicate economic condition of a country and earning of
employees working in country. Lower GDP also indicate lower investment in country, lower
government spending in country (Hao, Farooq and Sun, 2018). Resources in that country are
relatively costlier as there is low income in that country. There are not proper facility and
resources in that country.
Low Per Capita Income: Tanzania has low level of GDP which also decrease per capital
income of people living there. There is increasing poverty in that country and low purchasing
power of people. The resources available in this country are limited and often costlier.
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