National and organizational

National culture is one of the environmental factors which is characterized by the national group and influenced by the behavior of its individual members. The culture is giving a instrument in interpreting and predicting the behavior of the workforce even though it’s not one hundred percent reliable. Culture is implied by one particular group, educable and including of the values. There are other aspect of the culture; material culture, technologies, political ideology. The national culture of the workforce influences how they respond to the structures and systems planned and implemented by management.

There is difference depend on concept of international management and of cross cultural management. International management is defined as the generation and transfer of knowledge across initial settings, organizations, and countries. The cross cultural management is defined as development and application of knowledge about cultures in practice of international management.

The core assumption of cross cultural management is that manager can not expect to workforce of other culture into his own cultural norms. Cultural diversity in a group work provides chance of synergy. Diverse group would be less successful in the beginning of the work milestone but eventually outperformed the homogeneous groups.

How does national culture can influence corporative culture?

An international corporation is combined by workforce who has different national culture. So we can easily assume that the corporation can be influenced by the national culture.

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