Cross Cultural Management
The purpose of this assignment is to give you a broad overview of the main issues involved in assessing your cultural perspective and those of others in a working environment. This assignment will also help you to reflect on your own cultural behavior and to understand issues involved in organizational culture and inter-organizational cross-cultural interactions in a real-time situation by applying your knowledge to a real business situation. Draw on the textbook for background and theory; however, you are expected to draw on academic literature and list them as academic references at the end of your Assignment. This assignment is based on building a reflective journal.
Sample Solution
Globalization, offshore outsourcing, global value chain and global division of labor have led today’s Business firms to internationalize their activities, therefore, cultural diversity become an important issue in managing the contemporary worldwide workplaces (Sultana1, Mamunur, Mohiuddin & Nurul, 2015). In fact, it has become a necessity for managers to take this challenge by fully utilizing the potential capabilities of multi-cultural workforce in order to achieve organizational effectiveness. To address this situation, we attempted to understand the impact of cross-cultural diversity management on organizational effectiveness and competitive advantage in an organization. A content analysis method has been used in this article to explain the impact of cultural diversity management in order to accelerate firms’ competitiveness.
