Organizing and Managing Across Culture

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INTRODUCTION: This case study describes the problems related with the inter-cultural communication in Nordic subsidiary in Japan. The cultural differences are between the Nordic based HRM programs and local Japanese culture and values. The Japanese people were facing the issue of Nordic based management system which is totally a new concept for them. Thus Nordic management had a deep thinking upon this issue because it was leading to the strike which was ultimately hampering the working of a company. The modification in these HRM program in accordance to the Japanese culture is quite necessary. This study examines the causes and consequences of linguistic and cultural barriers to inter-cultural communication in Nordic subsidiaries in Japan. Interviews were conducted with 30 Nordic (Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden) expatriates and 29 Japanese employees show that the main linguistic barriers to intercultural communication were lack of a shared language and low motivation to improve foreign-language proficiency. The main cultural barriers were collectivism, and status and power differences. Combined, the consequences of these barriers were extensive reliance on language intermediaries, information filtering, in-group/out-group categorization, receiver-centered communication and in-congruent supervisor-subordinate expectations. The interviews suggest that linguistic and cultural barriers have a differentiated impact on intercultural communication. Thus, it can be said that inter-cultural communications may Toll Free No. +44 203 8681 670 Assignment desk provides assignment help from professional UK writers.
create confusions among the employees and this may hamper the performance of employees. (1) What are the main language and cultural barriers to intercultural communication in foreign subsidiaries? Hofstede Model Hofstede introduced the theory which was mainly emphasized on the fact that how values within the organization are affected by the culture. Moreover, according to the viewpoint of Hofstede, culture can be defined as the collective programming of mind in which differentiation are done with one person from another. This is a sample on Organizing and Managing Across Culture, for complete Assignment writing Kindly, contact us at: help@assignmentdesk.co.uk In this case, Nordic opened a subsidiary in the Japan and in that Japanese people were appointed along with the Nordic expatriate and there Toll Free No. +44 203 8681 670 Assignment desk provides assignment help from professional UK writers.
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