Question 1
Power Distance: using the wrong power distance management can lead to a huge negative influence on productivity and speed. Especially in this fast-paced economic, speed means everything. Therefore, leaders need to understand what industry he is managing and the culture background of employees before giving direction or command.
Uncertainty avoidance: giving uncertainty to to unsuitable employees can put employees in a very uncomfortable place. If leaders do not handle this carefully, uncertainty avoidance can have a strong negative influence on employees’ loyalty, and employees can be easily demotivated. One of the best ways to avoid this is to measure employees’ risk tolerance by creating a company event that creates uncertainty issue as a testing. Another way is to have employees answering some sort of personality questionnaires when they first enter the company. That way leaders can have a better understanding …show more content…
The important part of doing this is to let both sides understand how the other culture work, and also to have a regular checkup to make sure things are going the right direction.
Question 4
Interaction between staff and customers: in my opinion, this is the most important thing to differentiate across culture. I know that some customers from certain countries do not like to be assisted while shopping, but some do. It is really culturally dependent. Therefore, we have to pay detailed attention to customers’ nonverbal communication, especially in the indirect culture.
Marketing: just like the Tide example we have learned in class, people from different cultures can have different perspectives. We have to ensure that the marketing methods fit the culture, and most importantly, we have to make sure they understand what message we are trying to
Power Distance: using the wrong power distance management can lead to a huge negative influence on productivity and speed. Especially in this fast-paced economic, speed means everything. Therefore, leaders need to understand what industry he is managing and the culture background of employees before giving direction or command.
Uncertainty avoidance: giving uncertainty to to unsuitable employees can put employees in a very uncomfortable place. If leaders do not handle this carefully, uncertainty avoidance can have a strong negative influence on employees’ loyalty, and employees can be easily demotivated. One of the best ways to avoid this is to measure employees’ risk tolerance by creating a company event that creates uncertainty issue as a testing. Another way is to have employees answering some sort of personality questionnaires when they first enter the company. That way leaders can have a better understanding …show more content…
The important part of doing this is to let both sides understand how the other culture work, and also to have a regular checkup to make sure things are going the right direction.
Question 4
Interaction between staff and customers: in my opinion, this is the most important thing to differentiate across culture. I know that some customers from certain countries do not like to be assisted while shopping, but some do. It is really culturally dependent. Therefore, we have to pay detailed attention to customers’ nonverbal communication, especially in the indirect culture.
Marketing: just like the Tide example we have learned in class, people from different cultures can have different perspectives. We have to ensure that the marketing methods fit the culture, and most importantly, we have to make sure they understand what message we are trying to