International Management: Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Analysis

This presentation provides an overview of international management, highlighting the critical role that national and organizational culture play in business operations. It emphasizes the complexities that arise when organizations expand into different nations due to varying cultural norms and values. The presentation delves into Hofstede's cultural dimensions, comparing countries like China, France, South Africa, and the United States across aspects such as power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence. The analysis reveals significant differences among these nations, underscoring the need for effective international management strategies that account for cultural nuances. The presentation concludes that understanding and analyzing the culture of different nations is essential for organizations to achieve their goals and objectives in the global marketplace. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a variety of study tools and resources for students.

International Management

Table of contents
 Introduction
 International management
 Influence of national and organizational culture on business operations
 Hofstede’s cultural dimension
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 International Management refers to the management of business operations where the
organization is performing operations in several markets or more than one country.
 It requires extra skills and knowledge because of the complexity of business operations.
 It also requires a demand for extensive knowledge of local conditions and adaptability.

International management
 In today's global world, it is found in the organization that they are continuously focusing
on increasing business in other Nations because of the expansion and growth of the
company.
 Globalization provides many opportunities for the organization to grow their business but
it also provides many complexities to the organization because of different cultures.

Influence of national and organisational
culture on business operations
 The differences in the national and organizational culture of a company provide an impact
on business operations.
 Generally, provides a negative impact on business operations because it becomes very
difficult for an organization to operate in a different culture.
 There are many complexities occurred due to the different cultures.

Hofstede’s cultural dimension
 Power distance: By compare ring the power
distance of these four countries that becomes
very shocking that every country is different
from the other in the case of power distance.
It is found that China is believing that
inequalities among people are acceptable. In
the case of France, a few degrees of inequality
are acceptable in society.

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 Individualism: In the case of individualism
China is found to be a highly collective
culture in which people are found to be an
interesting group. But in the case of France,
it is found that they are an individualist
society. It is similar in the case of South
Africa and the United State.

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 Masculinity: In this
dimension, China is found
to be a masculine society
where they are focused on
success oriented and
driven.

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 Uncertainty avoidance: China is found to
be accepted ambiguity because the
languages are full of ambiguous meanings
which becomes very difficult for western
people to follow. Similarly, South Africa
and United State also found some
ambiguity but they are less compared to
China.

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 Long-term orientation: It is identified
that China has a pragmatic culture in
which people believe that truth
depends on the situation, time, and
context.

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 Indulgence: This is also found to be
very different in each country. China
has a very low score and that's why it
is a restrained society. This is the main
reason that they tend towards
pessimism and cynicism.

Conclusion
 It can be concluded from the above presentation that an organisation is required to
achieve its goals and objectives but they require effective international management. For
effective international management, it becomes very necessary to make sure about
identifying and analysing the culture of different nations.

References
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 Karhunen, P., and et.al., 2018. Let’s talk about language: A review of language‐sensitive
research in international management. Journal of Management Studies, 55(6), pp.980-1013.