Managers of 2015 are designed to be alert from cross-cultural differences, with positive, optimistic attitude to tackle the problems of global business.
If you born in Australia, grew up, or have lived here long enough, you will have heard people say “No worries mate” This is widely understood in Australian English to provide reassurances, without any personal commitment. The growth of international trade, the assimilation of financial markets, the advances in telecommunication and information technology, the transportation facilities etc have resulted in a much smaller world. As business grows across national boundaries, there is contact made with people from range of other cultures. There is an urgent need to study the various differences in the cultures of different nations to avoid misunderstanding while dealing with people from other cultural settings.
Mubin Ul Haider
One step towards this is the action learning project that has been instituted by Lecturer ken Gilbert of QUT to develop globally competent leaders and managers. As the global economy becomes more integrated and company’s expand their operation broad, they increasingly come into the contact of a wide range of cultures
This means the importance of the leadership skills has become more cross national important than always. There are some skills that have to be imbibed by an individual in order to be a global competent leader and manager. The increasingly complex international environment affects all aspects of business. There is no clear distinction between national and cultural characteristics, but national characteristics are considered to be the more concrete and observable ones that distinguish nation from nation.
The basis for most of the problems that are faced by international managers are cultural differences. There has always been a belief that people from different countries can be treated in the same manner as the locals, once the language barriers had been overcome.
The cultural differences that divided countries are not only language barrier but also values and beliefs that are more often said than not are directly opposed. Managers doing business overseas are constantly running into problems because of beliefs and attitudes that they believed were inherent in the host country which had no logical rationale. This has mainly occurred due to the low degree if knowledge that the overseas managers and businessmen possess about the host country’s cultural differences.
One step towards this is the action learning project that has been instituted by Lecturer ken Gilbert of QUT to develop globally competent leaders and managers. As the global economy becomes more integrated and company’s expand their operation broad, they increasingly come into the contact of a wide range of cultures
"There is an urgent need to study the various differences in the cultures of different nations to avoid misunderstanding while dealing with people from other cultural settings"
Lecturer ken Gilbert, QUT
The basis for most of the problems that are faced by international managers are cultural differences. There has always been a belief that people from different countries can be treated in the same manner as the locals, once the language barriers had been overcome.
The cultural differences that divided countries are not only language barrier but also values and beliefs that are more often said than not are directly opposed. Managers doing business overseas are constantly running into problems because of beliefs and attitudes that they believed were inherent in the host country which had no logical rationale. This has mainly occurred due to the low degree if knowledge that the overseas managers and businessmen possess about the host country’s cultural differences.
A primary source of misunderstanding among cultures is the differences in values and priorities. Some of the most common lie in the way dissimilar cultures perceive punctuality communicative expressions, personal space wealth, personal relationships, family roles criteria for achievement, grounds for competition and its limitations, social customs and other interrelated issues.
Mubin ul Haider
Mubin ul Haider
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