ITALY CULTURE ANALYSIS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
ITALY CULTURE ANALYSIS FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. The Background of Italy 2-3
3. Culture Analysis of the Italy 3
3.1 Italian History Influences to Italy 3-4
3.2 The Religion of Roman Catholicism Impacts in Italy 4
4. Recommendation for doing Global Business in Italy 4-5
4.1 Respect Different cultural customs 5
4.2 Well-managed Cross Culture Management 5-6
4.3 Follow the religion characteristics of Roman Catholic 6
5. Conclusion 6
6. References 7-8
1. Introduction
This is an individual assignment to discuss culture characteristics and its effects to a business environment. Thus, this assignment will show the understanding of the culture importance, and providing the methods for cross culture management. For the full-scale of culture application to business environment cognitive competencies, this assignment will discuss the culture characteristics, analyze the culture for international business operation, study the culture synthesis, and then give recommendations according to the applications of business environment in particular. According the requirement of this assignment, I have chosen the country of Italy to complete the tasks of this assignment.
2. The Background of Italy
Italy is a unified peninsula country in the south of Europe, and it looks like a boot in the world map. The neighbour countries of Italy are surrounded by Andorra, Monaco, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania and Greece. The total size of Italy is 116306 square miles. Italy has total 1120 cities; the largest cities are including Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Genoa. Whereby, Rome is the capital city of Italy, and whose main religion is Rome Catholic. Italian is the official language in Italy. Never the less, the 96% of the native Italians speak Italian. The other regional dialects in Italy are including German, Catalan, Greek, French, Slovenian, Albanian,
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2
2. The Background of Italy 2-3
3. Culture Analysis of the Italy 3
3.1 Italian History Influences to Italy 3-4
3.2 The Religion of Roman Catholicism Impacts in Italy 4
4. Recommendation for doing Global Business in Italy 4-5
4.1 Respect Different cultural customs 5
4.2 Well-managed Cross Culture Management 5-6
4.3 Follow the religion characteristics of Roman Catholic 6
5. Conclusion 6
6. References 7-8
1. Introduction
This is an individual assignment to discuss culture characteristics and its effects to a business environment. Thus, this assignment will show the understanding of the culture importance, and providing the methods for cross culture management. For the full-scale of culture application to business environment cognitive competencies, this assignment will discuss the culture characteristics, analyze the culture for international business operation, study the culture synthesis, and then give recommendations according to the applications of business environment in particular. According the requirement of this assignment, I have chosen the country of Italy to complete the tasks of this assignment.
2. The Background of Italy
Italy is a unified peninsula country in the south of Europe, and it looks like a boot in the world map. The neighbour countries of Italy are surrounded by Andorra, Monaco, France, Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Albania and Greece. The total size of Italy is 116306 square miles. Italy has total 1120 cities; the largest cities are including Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Genoa. Whereby, Rome is the capital city of Italy, and whose main religion is Rome Catholic. Italian is the official language in Italy. Never the less, the 96% of the native Italians speak Italian. The other regional dialects in Italy are including German, Catalan, Greek, French, Slovenian, Albanian,