Intl Mgmt

Question answered:

You will be allocated to a group. You are part of a global financial services company

that has offices in London, New York, Tokyo and Singapore. Its head office is in New

York and the predominant culture stems from there. Explore how the corporate

organisational culture from its head office might be affected when encountering the

regional cultures that are present in each of its locations. Use the group dynamics

to explore the four countries, dividing them between the group equally and drawing

on the resources made available during the module. Present your findings as a group

powerpoint with an audio file. In addition individually write up your own conclusions

as to the effects of regional cultural issues on the corporate organisational

culture of this multinational company as it conducts its business internationally.

Focus upon the predominant organisational culture.

How Corporate Organizational Culture is Shaped

The global business environment is currently characterized by growing uncertainties and firms globally need to be culturally innovative in order to respond appropriately to the changes and business crises that might arise (Oxford ca.2013). According to Wursten (2012 ), the global socio-cultural environment by nature’s design is culturally heterogeneous and can be segmented into culture cluster in order to understand and effectively manage the intercultural interactions amongst different countries of the world. Dorfman et al. (2002) alluded to the fact that the concept of culture clusters provides useful information required to understand the dynamics of different regional cultures.

Hofstede(1980), stated that organizational culture can be seen as the...