Cultural Frameworks: Useful Tools When Going International
Cultural Frameworks: Useful tools when going international
Contents page
Introduction
Introduction
Going International
What is Culture?
The Expatriate
Cultural Frameworks
Kluckhohn amd Strodtbeck’s Framework
Hofstede’s Framework (Hofstede 1994)
Trompenaar’s 7 Dimensions
Triandis’ Framework
GLOBE- Robert House of Wharton School
Summary of Common dimensions
Implementation of Cross-Cultural Training Strategies
A Three-Stage Development Sequence
The MBI Model
Reasons Cross-Cultural Training Fail
(Connerley and Pederson 2005)
Conclusion
References
Introduction
Introduction
The world is becoming smaller as we move towards a global and borderless society. Transactions involving the inflows and outflows of goods and services that previously took several months to occur, are now instantaneous at the click of a button. All organisations are affected by international competition and to survive they are adapting by looking overseas to new markets and opportunities for growth. The ability to manage organisational functions and people across borders is fundamental to a firm’s success.
“Management is getting things done through (other) people. This is true the world over. In order to achieve this, one has to know the “things” to be done, and one has to know the people who have to do them” -(Hofstede 1994 p1)
This essay will discuss culture, its influence on the businesses when going international and offer some strategies to help raise awareness to prepare for the overseas incursion. The application of a cultural framework is suggested as one tool that could be used to initiate the development of cultural knowledge as part of a broader cross-cultural training program.
Going International
Phatak, Bhagat & Kashlak (2009 p6) define international management:
“As a process of accomplishing the global objectives of a firm by (1) effectively coordinating