Cross Cultural Management: Importance And Strategies

Culture and Business

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In a business the employees come from entirely different background as they are hired on the basis of their talent. Entirely different culture leads to diverse culture that needs to be resolved to assure business functioning is not affected (Jemielniak, 2016). To make sure that sustainable environment is maintained at the workplace an effective cultural management plan need to be deployed so that effective communication is done. The reason of conflict is that every individual follow different customs and has different communication styles thus use of different scheme to communicate and share their ideas leads to conflicts (López-Duarte, et. al, 2016). To avoid these conflicts cross cultural management is needed.

Culture is an essential part of every business as it helps in designing different strategies that could be beneficial for productive growth of a business. It enhances the decision making power of an individual and business (Karin Andreassi, et. al, 2014). Different culture in a business helps in making right decision like deciding upon meetings, placement or internship services. Culture of a business is completely dependent on the behaviour and ethics of an employee (Leach, 2016). In an organisation there are employees from different countries so they follow entirely different customs and etiquettes that may affect the efficiency of the business. The global ethics of a business is dependent on two factors that are culture and business. Following different customs and values by every individual in an organisation can underestimate the working environment of business (Khatri, Tsang and Begley, 2016). As culture is the only thing that differentiates the business from other business, as it depends upon the behaviour of a person and how be communicate to each other.

Culture and business are two separate terms but still they are dependent on each other. Culture helps in gaining the knowledge regarding different cultures and learning about their differences. Culture helps the business to grow globally as there are employees from different background which think in a different way that helps the organisation to think in different directions (Engle and Delohery, 2016). Communication is the only medium through which people employee thus it is important that employees understand some common language so that there exist a smooth connection. For example at work place if all employees start their communication in differ-different language it would be difficult to have any discussion. Thus an organisation should develop teaching skills so that employees learn about other employees. Thus improving the connection among employees will be beneficial for the business as they would effectively work in a team.

Importance of Cross Cultural Management

Culture is a set of characterized values, attitude and practice that are followed by group of individuals. In a business it would be an issue if every individual as different mindfulness regarding the same concern this can lead to conflicts. Thus it is important that every employees understands the social customs of other religion. It doesn’t mean adapting the customs of individuals from different culture it’s simply means understanding their mentality to maintain a smooth relation to avoid future conflicts. Understanding the traditions help in collaborating with the individuals effectively (Gijon-nogueron, et. al, 2014). In a business diverse culture is developing every day, yet innovation and media has helped in providing knowledge about different culture.  This smoothness helps in removing the diverse culture as it empower a person to understand different traditions in a better way.

According to the research of given article it can be states that, there are various groups all have different cultures that follow entirely different patterns. Thus to deal with such situation and avoid conflicts a proper leadership is required (Bird and Mendenhall, 2016). Leadership in a business helps in managing the entire culture, providing ways to interact within the organisation and launching campaigns to avoid the chances of miss-communication. It is essential to manage culture at the work place to avoid the chances of obstacles due to various cultures. Culture can be viewed as a fuzzy arrangement of qualities that are followed by an individual. Different approaches and strategies are characterized for every member of an organisation so that they learn about different customs. For any associations managers need to design plans to manage individuals from various cultures. If the policies and arrangements are preceded in a correct way then the diverse culture issue of the business would be resolved faster. In the research it was discovered that business culture is produced at three unique levels that are different qualities, artefacts and expectations. In a business diversity can cover the dressing sense of a man, the way of sharing their ideas and how they respect other customs (Dunning, 2014). Qualities refer to seeing how and why they carry certain behaviour.  Also, the ideas differ from one individual to another individual and the general diverse culture of business is shown through these highlights.

As indicated in the article, it can be expressed that business structure should be overseen by mangers so that they find ways to spread the social awareness regarding other employees. Cultural differences trigger the productivity of business as it creates negative effect on the business. Hence, it diminishes the image of organization and makes it difficult for business to go for longer run (Akhtar,  Lodhi and Khan, 2016).  Any cultural differences may prompt to loss of workers. In the article it is stated that cross cultural management is used to remove the difference and make the business environment easily adaptable by every individual.  According to the article it can be stated that management is an important component for a business as it make sure that business work productively. Thus to maintain smooth culture a strong leadership is needed so that they can vision all the issues and take appropriate actions (Bryman and Bell, 2015). Technological improvement and a common communication medium can help employees to share their thinking which could be useful for building strong relations.

Strategies for Resolving Cultural Differences

Cultural differences can hit the business in different ways. Particularly while building the business with other nation individual’s gestures should be followed according to the traditions to get clients from different country. For instance, some nations believe that talking at louder pitch is just an ordinary signal while in some other nation like Japan talking in loud pitch is considered as abusing the individuals. In this manner these distinction should be taken care to avoid the conflicts (Michailova and Tietze, 2015) . The fundamental issue of distinct culture in business is because of globalization of business. It is essential to manage the social issues in a business this could be done by utilizing innovation or launching training programs that helps the employees to interact and know about different customs. Cultural differences additionally influence the accessibility of an individual as there is difference in culture due to contrast in time zone (Naor, et. al, 2014).

Cultural and business are closely related to each other. The way an individual communicate depends upon its culture completely as it varies from one culture to another. Thus to make sure that in business employees can share their ideas and wok in a team it is necessary to link their culture perceptive so that chances of conflicts are removed. To make sure issues related to diversity in culture is resolved various strategies are designed like equality among employees that takes care than every employee is treated in a similar manner, no priority is given to any employee based on their custom values. Plans are designed with clear agenda so that chances of conflicts become nil(Zhu,  Habisch and Thøgersen, 2018). Considering an example when group of people meet for some meeting at the very first time, they all start communicating in different language that will create hindrance while communicating.

Each culture has diverse practices in this manner it is important to understand the way other culture behaves so that there are conflicts in future. Cross cultural management doesn’t mean tolerating the employees of other culture however it simply means building up the behaviour so that no one is insulted in an association. Learning about the traditions of various culture helps in associating employees with other workers effortlessly. Innovation has somewhere helped in removing the differences by making it easy to communicate.

Each business has distinctive culture at the work place hence to keep up a positive culture at the working environment it is necessary to understand the obstructions of culture in a business. Culture is a set that have diverse assumptions and each person have different belief. Business discovers approaches to manage workers that belong from various foundations. These strategies help in removing the differences that will prompt profitable development of an association. As per the research it can be stated that business culture relies on three levels that is how can individual behave with other, how they interact and their perception about others cultural value.  Value of an individual include the identity of a worker how he/she holds himself and their perception with respect to other cultures.

Leadership and Communication

Business is influenced by differences in culture from numerous points of view. For instance if the business is expanded in different nations they ought to know about the traditions of that nation. Every country follows different standards and workers work according to their native cultures. Thus to remove these cultural differences leadership quality need to be cultivated in the business so that every employee work on the same rules and regulations.

Business and culture are firmly connected to each other and they together helps in managing variety of issues in an organisation. Culture supports the organisation in making choices as individuals from different culture helps in giving thoughts that are altogether different and have different perceptive that helps business to grow. Individuals from same culture mostly have same perception.  Business often work in international market for trading thus it is necessary for a business to adapt to different cultures and build strong relation with the clients. This could be attained by proving proper cultural training to employees regarding different cultures and how they are related to each other. Communication is one of the tool used to remove cultural differences it also helps the employees to interact with each other and understand the though process of others so that it reduces the chances of conflicts.

Thus it can be concluded, that business and culture are closely related to each other and it is true that to remove the diverse culture from an organisation a global leadership is required. In a business there are employees from all over the world as each employee has different rules and customs. Thus to avoid conflicts and miss-communication between the employee leadership practices should be used. So, that healthy environment is maintained and there are no differences in an employee due to their culture.

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