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Cultural Comparisons and Management Functions
This paper examines cultural comparisons and discusses how an American manager carries out management functions in the process of supervising German employees. With respect to individualism vs. collectivism, both Germany and the U.S. score high in individualism, that is, the degree to which individuals further their own interests. However, according to Hofstede's model of cultural dimensions, Germany's score of 67 ranks far enough below the U.S. score of 91 that the manager should expect differences in their approaches to working together in teams for instance. German employees would have only a moderate amount of group cohesion, with only a moderate amount of interpersonal connection and sharing of responsibility.
For the American manager, the two country's respective scores indicate that the manager should expect his or her German employees to be less individualistic than their manager. The manager should place a relatively...
The manager should also respect the employees' privacy, and should expect that employees will enjoy challenges and rewards for hard work. The manager should also encourage debate and expression of ideas.
For Hofstede's power distance index, Germany rates 35 while the U.S. rates 40. This index measures the extent to which less powerful members of an organization accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The U.S. shows a more unequal distribution of wealth as compared with Germany, although the two indices are not that far apart. The American manager should recognize that German employees expect flatter organizations, and that supervisors and employees are nearly considered equals. Hofstede's analysis shows that the manager should use a team approach, and involve as many people as possible in the decision making process.
As for risk-taking and risk averse behavior,…
Human Resources Managing Organisational Culture The values and behaviors that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of an organization make up the organizations culture. Organizational culture is the summation total of an organization's past and current suppositions, incidents, viewpoint, and values that hold it together, and is articulated in its self-image, inner workings, connections with the outside world, and future prospects. In dealing with the management of organisational culture, it is
Based on the competitive nature of the business environment, strict formalities had to be kept up in order not to go beyond the boundaries of good business ethics and practices. The final dimension was created after the first initial four and later adopted by Holfstede into his dimensional structure of cultural organizations. This dimension is associated with the group being more associated with long or short-term orientation. Companies with more
Also reception of criticism and feedback is necessary since it contains information that can assist people to achieve the necessary goal. What is further important is that, by giving subordinates feedback will make them feel that they are part of the work process; consequently they fight back to complete the job systematically (Boddy, 2008). In my view this is the mainly sensible theory but its disadvantage is that every so often bosses
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