How Do You Feel Different Management Styles Will Influence the Work Place and the Cultural Environment

How do you feel different management styles will influence the work place and the cultural environment

The topic of cross cultural management has never been as current as it is nowadays. The term ‘global village' summarizes what technology has done for the communication between people and for the understanding of the different cultures. This without a doubt would be a process requiring deep understanding of the aspects that form a nation's character – religion, history, culture – as well as a single person's traits - family, personal interests and understandings. An interesting trait indicates that the generation that has been born after the technological development in the last decades shows similarities that have not been noted in any generation before that. The Internet is possibly the most effective way for shortening the distances that culture and the geographical distances have put between people.

Knowledge of the differences in culture is mandatory as a key for realization in a modern society. It has to become part of the social and political development as a modern sector. The last century has shown the limit of social structures. The events from this period have shaped the future of the world, or in other words some of the basis for communication today. The world wars and the followed-up extremist politic trends, as well as human's overuse of the natural resources have been indicators of the change of the frame of a modern society. The term globalization has come after trials of breaking these boundaries after World War II in hope of no future military actions that would bring the world again to such devastations. Technology has brought the option for a shared path, rather than difference in ideologies, that would build new principles for the solving of global problems on a social and economic level.

Hall's context of information is an example of behavior based on the flow of communication between people. Cultures such as Japan that have high context rely on the basis of primary information and on the relationships with the people close to them. Cultures such as America have low context that requires more questioning and sources for information. This shows how, when two people with different level of context meet, there could be misunderstanding that could make a person look either too demanding and questioning or hiding information and unwilling to cooperate. This type of behavior show how different aspects in the building of a personality can affect cross cultural communication and demonstrate its level of importance in the modern society.

The different structures of company management is another factor that plays a role in the global market. In USA, the managing administration although holding much power, is under pressure from the shareholders. In Japan and Europe relationships with the government and the shareholders are less pressuring. The exchange of experience has helped both parts improve the system of management accordingly.

Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars and Shalom Schwartz have established the main basis for the cross cultural understanding and research. Hofstede's five dimensions are based on power distance – the extent to which less powerful people accept authority, masculinity – distribution of roles between genders, uncertainty avoidance – tolerance for ambiguity and individualism – the degree to which individuals are integrated into groups. Fons Trompenaars separates the factors into seven dimensions under the categories of people's relationships – universalism, individualism, neutral, specific, achievement; time orientation – past, present, future and sequential; nature's relationship – external, internal; For Shalom Schwartz, culture is a "rich, complex of meanings, beliefs, practices, symbols, norms, and values prevalent among people among people in a society" that have shaped the categories of – embeddedness, autonomy; hierarchy, egalitarianism; mastery, harmony;

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