Summary Of the case Organizational and National Cultures in a Polish/ U.S Joint Venture Background * The case looks at differences in cultural values and beliefs of Polish and U.S managers employed in a joint venture in Poland. * Joint venture with a Polish partner and a wholly owned subsidiary of a U.S multinational corporation located in Poland. * Small joint venture‚ non-bureaucratic organization with 140 employees. * Family type of relationship existed among the managers
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Deal and Kennedy’s cultural model Corporate culture is one of the key drivers for the success – or failure – of an organization. Deal and Kennedy’s Cultural Framework In their work on the subject of culture‚ Deal and Kennedy suggested that the basis of corporate culture was an interlocking set of six cultural elements: History – A shared narrative of the past lays the foundation for corporate culture. The traditions of the past keep people anchored to the core values that the organization
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Trompenaars’s Dimensions Universalism vs. Particularism Universalism is the belief in: rules or laws that can be applied to everyone; agreements and contracts are used as the basis for doing business; rules are used to determine what is right; contracts should not be altered. Particularism is the belief in: placing emphasis on friendships and looking at the situation to determine what is right or ethically acceptable deals are made based upon friendships; agreements are changeable;
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to the negotiation‚ maybe leaving “money on the table”. 2. At the first negotiation meeting‚ Conquip made a threat disguised within an offer. The offer was to retain FD as a companywide‚ primary supplier if FD could meet its price demands. A. What was the threat embedded in this offer? The threat was probably to make FF its worldwide supplier intead‚ as they could “for sure” meet the price requests. B. Why was this offer not credible to de Winter? It was not credible because of the close
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initiatives of international / cross-cultural conflict management introduced below‚ and the author categorized them into commercial and non-commercial. It is mainly because the BRI is primarily perceived as an economic activity. However‚ this is the arguments of this article that potential conflicts under the BRI should be diversified; all of them are also need to be well managed for implementing the BRI well. The non-commercial examples below not only enrich the understanding on what various conflicts going
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Solving a problem means lining up the facts and evaluating one after another. Decisions are based on fact rather than intuition. Discussions end with actions. And communicators are expected to be straightforward‚ concise‚ and efficient in telling what action is expected. To be absolutely clear‚ they strive to use precise words and intend them to be taken literally.
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A reading response through question 1 to the article titled: Violence Against Women: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by Nora ALMOSAED ELIAS KHALIL – Section 1 – ID no. 201001643 In the text‚ the relationship is made between women’s subordinate status and violence against them. What are the implications of power relations and status here? How do these affect the state of the Middle East today? All throughout history‚ men have dealt with women as being subordinate‚ which is mainly due to
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Cross-Cultural Conflicts in the Corning-Vitro Joint Venture Corning Inc. is a US company that has a record of some 40 successful global joint ventures over the course of 73 years. Their success rate in joint ventures is over 80 percent which is well above the 50 percent average for successful foreign and national alliances. Through their years of success and experience‚ their formula for determining whether to partner with another organization boiled down to two factors. First‚ will the
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Culture and Leader Effectiveness: The GLOBE Study Background: The "Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness" (GLOBE) Research Program was conceived in 1991 by Robert J. House of the Wharton School of Business‚ University of Pennsylvania. In 2004‚ its first comprehensive volume on "Culture‚ Leadership‚ and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies" was published‚ based on results from about 17‚300 middle managers from 951 organizations in the food processing‚ financial
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ross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Edit 0 0 130… Cross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Notes (pg. 287-310) In the year 139 B.C.E.‚ the Chinese emperor Han Wudi sent an envoy named Zhang Qian on a mission to lands west of china. The emperor’s purpose was to find allies who could help combat the nomadic Xiongnu‚ who menaced the northern and western borders of the Han empire. From captives he had learned that other nomadic peoples in far wester lands bore grudges against the Xiongnu
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