International Management Process
Department of Management, Marketing and Information Systems
Multinational Corporate Management
Fall 02 Semester
The International Management Process
An Overview
· International Management process - is heavily affected by the culture (as well as other factors) of the country where enterprises pursue their goals and objectives.
· Culture - comprise an entire set of social norms and responses that condition people's behavior, it is acquired and incalculated, a set of rules and behavior, patterns that an individual learns but does not inherit at birth.
Three Ways Culture is Learned:
· Formal learning - formal activities are taught by precept and admonition.
· Informal learning - the principal agent is molded used for imitations.
· Technical learning - it its pure form, is close to be a one way street.
Sources of Cultural Learning:
1. Family
2. Educational institutions
3. Religion (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism)
Impact of Culture of International
I. Planning - Entail defining the organization's mission and establishing goals and objectives and an overall strategy to achieve them. To create and influence its environment to exert some degree of control over its destiny.
· Master of destiny - this viewpoint believe that they can substantially influence the future, that they can control their destiny and that through work they can make things happen.
· Fatalisitic viewpoints - or determinism, in the Middle East cultures and Muslims faith their viewpoint believe that they cannot control their destiny, that God has predetermined their existence and willed what they are to do during their lives.
· Antiplanning - native Americans believe that any attempt to lay out specific and rational plans is either foolish or dangerous or downright evil. The correct approach is to live in them existing system react in terms of one's experience, and not to try to change them by means of some grandiose scheme or mathematical
Multinational Corporate Management
Fall 02 Semester
The International Management Process
An Overview
· International Management process - is heavily affected by the culture (as well as other factors) of the country where enterprises pursue their goals and objectives.
· Culture - comprise an entire set of social norms and responses that condition people's behavior, it is acquired and incalculated, a set of rules and behavior, patterns that an individual learns but does not inherit at birth.
Three Ways Culture is Learned:
· Formal learning - formal activities are taught by precept and admonition.
· Informal learning - the principal agent is molded used for imitations.
· Technical learning - it its pure form, is close to be a one way street.
Sources of Cultural Learning:
1. Family
2. Educational institutions
3. Religion (e.g., Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism)
Impact of Culture of International
I. Planning - Entail defining the organization's mission and establishing goals and objectives and an overall strategy to achieve them. To create and influence its environment to exert some degree of control over its destiny.
· Master of destiny - this viewpoint believe that they can substantially influence the future, that they can control their destiny and that through work they can make things happen.
· Fatalisitic viewpoints - or determinism, in the Middle East cultures and Muslims faith their viewpoint believe that they cannot control their destiny, that God has predetermined their existence and willed what they are to do during their lives.
· Antiplanning - native Americans believe that any attempt to lay out specific and rational plans is either foolish or dangerous or downright evil. The correct approach is to live in them existing system react in terms of one's experience, and not to try to change them by means of some grandiose scheme or mathematical