assignment to develop an assessment of similarities and diff

assignment to develop an assessment of similarities and differences in managerial processes and organisational culture which an international manager can expect to encounter in india and australia. Issues you may wish to examine could include how culture affects individualism versus group orientation, communications, decision-making, autocratic versus delegated leadership, superior-subordinate relationships and managing teams. In the report utilise appropriate academic theories about cross-cultural management to create frameworks to support your proposals.

Solution

The cross cultural management framework is remained as a real life management issue to manage a business house in India.

A manager in a business house in India , being a successful Manager a person need to be aware of the strict protocols and rituals that exists particularly exists in every state. It will differ from Kerala to Nagaland and Maharashtra to West Bengal . The differences in rituals and faith / beliefs are quite different and one manager must balance his work style to run effectively his / her organization.

The basics of the issue , the managers are taking a somewhat role like paternalistic attitude to their subordinates under his / her control. They are habituated to demonstrate a deep concern for their employees that goes beyond the workplace. The domain of intervention may cover the family of employees, their housing, health issues of family members and other real life issues etc. The similarity may also available in other developing countries across the world.

It is also opined that it is the Supervisors job to check the job day to day basis and provide the guidance to carry on regular constructive jobs keeping the quality and time schedule to make a ultimate aim for making the organization profitable and ever growing.

After independence, the Indian managers have shown high level of adaptiveness and readiness to change and kept medium level of tolerance even there are hue and cry for intolerance. In their history, many outsiders attacked the country of India particularly from eastern side and northern side and they have mixed up with the Indian society, and the society become multicultural than the rest of world.

However, failure in above causes a long term loss of confidence by the individual as well as by others due to attitude, inter cultural sensitivity is going to be required, especially when conducting group meetings and discussing contributions made by participating individuals.

The similarities with rest of world:

1. The India has a largest population in the world who knows English [ reading and or writing ] , however the fluency in speaking differs from person to person. Because of this, the call center industry is one of biggest among the the countries in the world.

2. The cultural difference is also prevails in Uniter Kingdom like English - Scottish cultural difference, In USA the Caucasian vs Black and Latino and in gulf country Sia vs Sunny is available, which are more and less similar multicultural population.

3. The work force is resilient and hard working and learning despite their low educational background , lack of training and ability is proven among the best and comparable to employees of japan etc.

4. Like a developed country, Indians are generally careful about time guidelines in business situations where schedules and deadlines regarded seriously , because of these , the IT [ software ] industries grown up in India to cater their services rest of world.

Dissimilarity:

1. The people and businessman are retaining high degree of ingenuity and its application of ingenuity is inclined in the negative side. The non conformance with contracted quality to save in cost with a short term outlook.

2. The business entrepreneur are not interested to develop their brand image and prone to make a huge profit from the current order.

3. Mixing the inferior quality of goods is more or less their basic instinct. impurity is regarded as usual practice, mixing of boulders / stones with coal, pieces of skin and hides with tea leaves are examples for making impurity to earn a huge profit in the short term at the cost of credibility.

4. Credibility is in negative side in business houses and caused a huge losses for the country, however the exporters are buoyant due to depreciation of its currency Rupees versus US $ and Sterling Pound of United Kingdom and Euro.

Australian Culture .

In contrast with India, The Aussie\'s are generally task oriented but not able and don not try to micro manage their staffs. Rather , The business managers are emphasize to achieve their common goal , productivity and overall profit of the organization by keeping the credibility in long run.

The intercultural competence and readiness for change is quite high. They have a high tolerance for risk and manifests ready acceptance for change. The underlying mindset is that change , while it is difficult , usually brings improvements and that hard work and innovation will bring a better future.

Risk takers who fail are not usually deprived of future opportunities as failure in past and such initial failure are regarded as the first stairs of the progress line and a part of learning process.

Similarity with other developed country:

1. It is multicultural and and students and employees under work permit and work visa are coming in Australia in every year and successfully completed their courses in colleges and the visa tenure of employment. However, there are some incidence of racial discrimination and cases of assault to non Australians, However it is not out of control and comparable with other part of the world.

2. Australians are in a controlled time culture, and adherence to time schedules is an important element of work culture.

3. The Australians are well educated and trained and retains skills with international standards and comparable to best of work forces in the world.

Dissimilarities:

1. The work forces are less than the requirement of the country, the country has a big landmass and enriched with minerals like coal, uranium etc. and and allowing work visa to work in their country. Many of them allowed for citizenship of Australia and it developed the multicultural society.

2. in general, Australians are often missing deadlines and manifesting a poor sign of management and inefficiency and shaking the people\'s of this country as well as to the outer world.

3. The egalitarian belief of Australia supports a collaborative of participative management style. they are often comfortable working in teams and do not expect to singled out for their contribution.

4. It is not unusual for managers to expect to work at late and even give up weekends in order to meet target deadlines. Successful management depends on the individual\'s ability to meet deadlines.

5. Australians are transactional and while it is not necessary to use an intermediary to make business introductions, at the same time, networking and relationship building can be an important factor to long term business success. Most senior- level executives within a industry are knowing one another. Since the population of the country is relatively small and many people remain in the same town all their lives , people strive to develop harmonious working relationships as they never know when they will have to work together again. The communication with employees are typically direct , often with a bit of humor . Avoids \'hard sell\' techniques and do not misconstrue a relaxed attitude as indicative of a lack of attention to detail. This a basic departure from others in the world. These have both the traits positive and negative.

The similarities and dissimilarities among India and Australia are:

These are the cultural back grounds of the both counties and similarity and dissimilarity and an International Manager shall borne in mind when organizing supervisory role in any of the country.

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