Cross Cultural Management: Navigating Cultural Differences in Business

This report provides an overview of cross cultural management, highlighting the significance of understanding cultural differences in international business. It explores Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory and its application to various countries, including a comparison of cultural differences betwee...Read More

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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION
Cultural Differences
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions’ framework
Cultural Differences between New York and France
Cultural Differences between New York and China
Cultural differences between New York and South Africa
Cultural obstacles
Impact of New York culture on foreign offices
Managing a globalized business
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION
 The cross cultural management refer to a field
of study which defines the cultural differences
in a better way as it can be understood by the
businesses.
 Through this, the firm can improve the
management and communication from the
different types of cultures.
 As in the simple terms, it is generally a study
which focus on the raising an activeness for
the problems in the communication and
management among the different countries.

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Cultural Differences
It is a group of beliefs, values, languages,
behaviours, etc. which can be determined as a
unique attribute in every worker. The performance
of the worker can be affected by the cultural
differences which can lead to decrease their
productivity. If the worker has to solve to their
problems and conflicts in an efficient manner,
they have to give attention to their cultural
differences.

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Hofstede’s cultural dimensions’
framework
As to understand the cultural differences in
different types of nations in an efficient
manner, there is a theory which is named as
Hofstede’s cultural dimension’s theory. It is
developed by Greet Hofstede in 1980 and
consists of six key dimensions which are
power distance, individualism-collectivism,
masculinity-femininity, uncertainty
avoidance, and short term vs long term
orientation. In simple terms, it is a theory
which describes about the cultural
differences of different nations.

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Cultural Differences between
New York and France
 The people of New York is dressed up in a casual way
while the people of France prefers to be more stylish and
formal. The French women normally wears the high heels
even when they are going out for a special occasion while
The American women wear only the comfortable shoes
like sneakers or flats which seem to be something casual.
 The people of New York go to the restaurants on the
occasions only while the people of France often go to the
restaurants at every meal.

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Cultural Differences between
New York and China
 The focus of Americans is to enjoy the
individuality rather than the group while
the Chinese people focus only on the
group. In the New York, the success
referred to be the success of an individual
while in China, the success is referred to
be the success for the company or the
team instead of an individual.

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Cultural differences between
New York and South Africa
 In the case of Americans, the
information is shared on the basis of
their requirements among them while
the people of South Africa doesn’t find
the requirement to share the
information as they think it is
mandatory for them.

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Cultural obstacles
As according to this, there are some cultural
barriers across different nations which is
mentioned below-
 Language barriers
 Marks and symbols
 Actions and views
 Partialities

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Impact of New York culture on
foreign offices
The culture in New York is very different as
from the other nations. As the peoples in the
New York prefer to be a very comfortable in
the music, art and dance and there are many
famous museums which presents the art of the
people in the New York. As according to this
culture, even the subway stations have the
signage's.

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Managing a globalized business
Globalized business refer to a business which
functions across the different nations. In simple
terms, it is a type of business who operates their
factories and distribution centres in various
nations.

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CONCLUSION
In the above presentation, there is a discussion about the cross cultural management and
the cultural differences faces by some nations. After discussing with this, there is an
explanation about the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions’ theory which provides a detailed
explanation about the cultural differences across different countries. The presentation
covers the cultural difference between the New York and the China, France and the
South Africa. After all of this, there is an explanation about the cultural barriers faced by
the firm. Hence, it is vital for an individual to embrace the cultural differences which
helps them to live a healthy lifestyle across the world.

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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Browaeys, M.J. and Price, R., 2019. Understanding cross-cultural management. Pearson UK.
Khayati, A. and Ariail, D.L., 2020. Business students’ perceptions of faculty attributes: A two-
country cross-cultural comparison. Accounting Education, 29(2), pp.153-176.
DeBode, J.D., Haggard, D.L. and Haggard, K.S., 2020. Economic freedom and Hofstede’s
cultural dimensions. International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior.
Rojo and et.al., 2020. Hofstede's cultural dimensions as the explanatory framework for
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