Zain Telecommunication Company “A Colorful World” Cross Cultural Management “Culture is like gravity: you do not experience it until you jump six feet into the air.” - Trompenaars and Hampen-Turner‚ Riding the Waves of Culture. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Organizations are no longer constrained by national borders. Due to globalization‚ the traditional teamwork has undergone transformation through entry of people from diverse cultures. This development has a marked effect upon corporations
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SUMMARY INTRODUCTION 2 PART I: ANALYSE THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 3 I - THE HOFSTEDE FRAMEWORK 3 II - THE TROMPENAARS FRAMEWORK 5 III - EDWARD HALL - LOW AND HIGH CONTEXT 8 PART II: RECOMMANDATIONS I – RECOMMENDATIONS RELATING TO THE FRAMEWORKS 9 II- VALUES IN THE BUSINESS 10 III - MEETINGS AND GREETING NORMS 10 IV - TOP TIPS ON SWEDEN BUSINESS CULTURE 12 CONCLUSION 14 BIBLIOGRAPHY 15 INTRODUCTION Sweden is a beautiful country with a god way
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order to succeed‚ particularly for the multinational organizations that employ people from around the globe fir their international operations. A glimpse of different theories on Cross Cultural Management a) Hofstede and his "five dimensions" theory: Hofstede had attempted to evaluate how staff in diverse national contexts reacted at the following four theoretical dimensions: • Power Distance • Uncertainty Avoidance • Individualism vs. Collectivism
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1108/02756660710746256 Hall‚ E Hofstede‚ G. (1984). Culture’s consequences: international differences in work-related values. Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage Publications. Hofstede‚ G. (1991). Cultures and organizations – software of the mind. New York‚ NY: Mcgraw-Hill. Hofstede‚ G. (2001). Cultures Consequences: Comparing Values‚ Behaviours‚ Institutions & Organizations Across Nations. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Hofstede‚ G. (2014). China. Retrieved from http://geert-hofstede.com/china.html Hofstede‚ G Hofstede‚ G. (2014). United
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................... 2 Eastern culture versus Western culture ........................................................................................... 3 Power Distance Index (PDI): Geert Hofstede ................................................................................. 4 Hierarchy and Equality: Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner ........................................................ 4 PDI and Educational level ..............................................................................
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Power Distance IDV: Individualism MAS: Masculinity UAI: Uncertainty Avoidance PDI: Power Distance IDV: Individualism MAS: Masculinity UAI: Uncertainty Avoidance The main cultural differences when using the Hofstede dimensions are in the dimensions Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance. It is clear that French culture accepts and welcomes a relatively big power gap. This means that it is hirarchical country where power and the flow of information is determined
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and Relationships (e.g.‚ Role Relationships‚ Power Distance) Hofstede (from website) Means-oriented vs. Goal-oriented Internally-driven vs. Externally-driven Easygoing work discipline vs. Strict work discipline Local vs. Professional Open-system vs. Closed-system Employee-oriented vs. Work-oriented Degree of acceptance of leadership style Degree of identification with your organization McNeil’s Version of Hofstede (McNeill‚ 2007) Process vs. Results Employee vs. Job Parochial
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is critical to the success (Browaeys and Price‚ 2011)‚ lies in the understanding the different means of in various cultures (Trompenaars‚ 1993). Hence‚ basic cultural analysis should be conducted to better plan the new manufacturing business unit in Brazil where there are many differences from the Swedish culture. The famous analytic models from Hofstede (1980) and Trompenaars (1993) are applied to identify the key distinct dimensions of the two national cultures in terms of their management implications
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Hofstede’s Five Aspects of Culture Hofstede ’s cultural factors Explanations > Culture > Hofstede ’s cultural factors Power | Self | Gender | Predictability | Time | So what? Geert Hofstede‚ a Dutch cultural anthropologist‚ analyzed cultures along five dimensions. He rated 58 countries on each dimension on a scale from 1 to 100. Power Hofstede named this Power Distance (PD or PDI). It is the extent to which less powerful members expect and accept unequal power distribution.
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Case Study Report Euro Disneyland DiChao Wu Student Number: 3152196 Case Study GSBS6009 – Cross-Cultural Management Due: 2th October 2012 Lecturers: Dr Karen Tian Table of Contents 1. Introduction This report provides information about the critical reflection of my personal decision making situation in the workplace or a similar environment and give some suggestion about how I might have dealt these issues. In preparing
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