MGT 501 Management And Organizational Behavior
Trident University International
Case Assignment #1
MGT 501 Management and Organizational Behavior
Introduction In this paper I am going to discuss the case of Ms. Myers and her failed venture in managing a company in a foreign country. I am going to discuss the five dimensions of a culture and then compare them to Ms. Myers case. Finally, I will give my recommendations of what she should have done to become successful.
What went wrong during Ms. Myers tenure from your point of view? Ms. Myers had a lot of experience working in cross-cultural business. She was well trained on how to teach people to figure out how to succeed in the new cultures. I think though when it came to her turn she was not as prepared as she thought. There were many difficulties that she faced but I …show more content…
There are many resources on Korean culture and it would help her understand some of the dynamics that she would be dealing with. She would have had a better understanding of how her coworkers viewed the world and it would have helped her in her interaction with them. She may not have offended some of her peers if she knew how to interact with them.
Finally, I would suggest that she understood her role in the business. Instead of going to the company under the assumption that they wanted her to change it she should have communicated with her superiors and had them explain what it was they wanted her to do. If she understood her position and their expectations she may have been successful in this venture.
Conclusion
In this paper we discussed the case of Ms. Myers and the five dimensions of culture created by Dr. Hofstede. We discussed how the five dimensions come into play in the globalization of companies and how they must personalize the company for each country. Also, we discussed how those five dimensions affected Ms. Myers and how she could have been successful had she been aware of these
Case Assignment #1
MGT 501 Management and Organizational Behavior
Introduction In this paper I am going to discuss the case of Ms. Myers and her failed venture in managing a company in a foreign country. I am going to discuss the five dimensions of a culture and then compare them to Ms. Myers case. Finally, I will give my recommendations of what she should have done to become successful.
What went wrong during Ms. Myers tenure from your point of view? Ms. Myers had a lot of experience working in cross-cultural business. She was well trained on how to teach people to figure out how to succeed in the new cultures. I think though when it came to her turn she was not as prepared as she thought. There were many difficulties that she faced but I …show more content…
There are many resources on Korean culture and it would help her understand some of the dynamics that she would be dealing with. She would have had a better understanding of how her coworkers viewed the world and it would have helped her in her interaction with them. She may not have offended some of her peers if she knew how to interact with them.
Finally, I would suggest that she understood her role in the business. Instead of going to the company under the assumption that they wanted her to change it she should have communicated with her superiors and had them explain what it was they wanted her to do. If she understood her position and their expectations she may have been successful in this venture.
Conclusion
In this paper we discussed the case of Ms. Myers and the five dimensions of culture created by Dr. Hofstede. We discussed how the five dimensions come into play in the globalization of companies and how they must personalize the company for each country. Also, we discussed how those five dimensions affected Ms. Myers and how she could have been successful had she been aware of these