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1 With globalisation and related intensification of trade and commerce effective leadership has become indispensable in the business world. Where traditionally the business leader took the role of commanding “the troops” towards effectiveness and efficiency this has changed dramatically over the last decades. The service industry rise‚ knowledge management trends‚ increased workforce diversity combined with international trading and global sourcing of talent‚ has considerably reshaped the role of
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Foucault‚ M. (1980) Power/knowledge. New York: Pantheon. Hofstede‚ Geert H. (1980) Culture ’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values. House‚ R.‚ Javidan‚ M.‚ Hanges‚ P. et al. (2002) “Understanding cultures and implicit leadership theories across the globe: an introduction to project GLOBE” in Journal of World Business‚ Vol Martin‚ J. (2002) Organizational culture. Mapping the terrain. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Trompenaars‚ F. (1997) Riding the waves of culture: Understanding
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Parinthorn Komonkitisakun Student no.1244197 The different in organization cultures are mainly related to the practices between companies‚ while the national culture are associated with the values that held deeply and difficult to change. Employees can adapt themselves to the organization culture and they can follow the leaders in an organization. However‚ if conflicts occurred between their national cultural values and the organizational culture‚ the organizational culture would be undermined
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Globalisation is the ever increasing interaction‚ interconnectedness and integration of people‚ companies and countries through trade flows‚ cultural penetration and investments across borders (Briscoe et al.‚ 2009). Consequently‚ the need to efficiently and effectively manage the complexity of organizations stretched across borders may have evolved the role of Human Resource Management into a multi facet strategic form‚ International Human Resource management. Despite being two sides of the same
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cultural backgrounds‚ therefore‚ an understanding of cultural differences can be a key to conflict resolution. To understand the influence of culture on the creation and resolution of conflict‚ one first needs to define the meaning of culture. Trompenaars (1993) suggested that culture is the result of finding solutions to problems with the environment‚ time‚ and relationships with others. Ting-Toomey (1999‚ p.10) defined culture as: “a learned meaning system that consist of patterns of traditions
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of one human group from another” is the most cited since 1980s. As defined by Schein‚ culture is an iceberg‚ with behaviors signaling the 10% visible part‚ and non-observable values and norms comprising the 90% below the surface (Rosinski.2003). Trompenaars uses an onion ring model of culture. He assigns artifacts and products as the visible tip‚ and relegates norms and values as the inner layer which surrounds a core of basic assumptions (2003). The dimensions of culture are: Power Distance (PDI)
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Lappeenranta University of Technology School of Business AC40A0101 Cross-Cultural Marketing Strategies Responsible Teacher Hanna Salojärvi Effects of Culture to Marketing in Italy 29 November 2010 TABEL OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2 2. Cultural Characteristics 4 3. Hofstede’s dimensions 8 4. Implications for marketing 10 5. Conclusions 12 References 14 Introduction The developing globalization process and companies orientation toward world markets lead to great
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if you are working with a Finn‚ try to ‘act Finnish’. So how do we develop a good picture of what ‘acting Australian’ or ‘acting Japanese’ might entail? Fortunately‚ there’s excellent research on intercultural cooperation we can consult. Fons Trompenaars’ Riding the Waves of Culture‚ or Nancy Adler’s International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior are some of the best books on the intercultural topic. My personal favourite in the “intercultural” arena‚ as relevant today as when its first edition
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