CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
What is CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT ?
CULTURE refers to the customs or ideas and social behavior that is concerned
about a society or group of people
CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT is the management system and involvement
of people and things around that has different culture background
Purpose- To handle the disputes of various culture and manage the work
effectively
SIX
dimensions of Cross-cultural management by Hofstede
• Six Dimensions
• Power distance
• Individualism
• Masculinity
• Time orientation
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Indulgence
• POWER DISTANCE
• The extent where the workers with minimal power think and gradually
believe that power is distributed unequally.
HIGH POWER DISTANCE
Dominating bosses
Significant subservience
Inequality
Subordinates feel themselves less important and not to be consulted
while making a decision.
LOW POWER DISTANCE
Democratic bosses
Little subservience
Little but equality
Subordinates feel themselves more important and to be consulted while
making a decision.
Let’s learn POWER DISTANCE with an example-
In a regular working day, your boss comes at your desk and shout at you
for making a little mistake. You can’t speak up or give your statement.
Others are also looking at you being silent.
>> This situation demonstrates HIGH POWER DISTANCE.
On the other side, your boss comes and discusses important decisions
with you before finalizing something.
>> This act shows LOW POWER DISTANCE.
INDIVIDUALISM
The cultures that emphasize on individual needs and behaviors over a group of
people.
Individual culture includes-
Independent belief
Individual needs the center place and highly preceded
Self-supporting tendency
Autocratic culture
This culture totally contrasts collectivism
MASCULINITY
Cultures that follow more male-norms in various initiatives, activities or
attitudes. It is believed that, for higher score in social successes, people need to
follow more masculine culture.
• A high score in society refers to the favor of MASCULINITY culture
• A lower score demonstrates the opposite. It shows FEMININITY is favored
more.
UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE
People try to follow some rules to predict the uncertainties and tend to handle
their lives according to a plan.
But it they feel the situation unpredictable, they leave it.
>> This also shows the aspects of HIGH UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE culture.
On the other side, LOW UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE demonstrates the exact
opposite view.
Here, people feel more ease and accept the disorganized situations following
the less rules as much as possible.
INDULGENCE
The culture that explains the level of controlling and suppressing the desires and
the way of living.
This is a very WEAK control over the cultures and behaviors.
But there is also STRONG control, that includes following strict rules while
crossing cultures and behaviors.
This kind of suppression is known as Restraint.
Time Orientation
A culture that refers to different attitudes regarding time, including past,
present and future.
>> LONG TERM ORIENTATION is followed when a society or organization
concentrate on the future, and focusing less on the short term success or
materials.
>> Whereas SHORT TERM ORIENTATION is all about fulfilling the present
hierarchy of the duties and responsibilities, and achieving short term successes.
The challenges HR division faces while hiring or dealing with different culture
people-
• Lack in communication
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• Completing duties
•
• Newer style while structuring policies
• The outcome of the changes
• Changes into regular rules
OPPORTUNITIES that shows new ways to success
• Extension
• Building up relations
• Developing various methods
• Serving with better policies
• Adopting better behavior
• Creating positive environment
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