Cross Cultural Management - publié le 13/02/2022

Résumé du document

Throughout the course "Cross-Cultural Management" you are expected to comment on the insights provided by the course in a kind of personal "journal". Here is my personal reflection :

Making links with your own experience (you can tell anecdotes and shed with a cultural light about it)
Making links with the current events (that happening the society, economy, politics, sport, etc with a cultural aspect)
Reflecting on the knowledge provided and sharing your thought about it.

Extraits

[...] A misleading behavioral or cultural difference is an obstacle to dialogue, a conflict in the making. A difference read correctly is an effective dialogue tool, rich for both parties. Dialogue is two "reasons" that meet, listen and try to understand each other. Let us leave room for debate, encourage exchanges, discussions where it will not be a question of affirming am right", but of clarifying its position, of giving it meaning, and of listening to the other, to try to understand its meaning. [...]

[...] Interculturality can also be perceived as a real strength, a mutual enrichment, sometimes an economic necessity: different and therefore complementary perceptions, openness to diversity and adversity, specialization of each in his chosen field according to his preferences and its assets, and its cultural sensitivity. Our added value: Facilitate personal and professional communication between individuals of different cultures, through mutual understanding and respect. Transform a difference into strength. [...]

[...] This culture is common to the whole of Auchan group that whatever the country where Auchan implants, it imports with it this culture that it applies within the company. The management mode is rather directive but also participative because there is a real desire for training. This mode of management is also common to all countries even though it will be seen later that Auchan is obliged to consider the differences related to the culture of each country. The management method is therefore transcribed but adapted to the country and its legislation. [...]

[...] It is also a way to attract motivated hiring candidates. It is also often considered in the selection of future employees. Cultures and management If universal human fundamentals govern us, culture is one of the differentiating elements. Culture is a set of uses, customs, artistic, religious or intellectual manifestations that define and distinguish a group of individuals, a society. Interculturality is the meeting of many cultures. In terms of management, interculturality can be a brake, sometimes a pretext: different languages, customs, frames of reference, etc. [...]

[...] She gives me a big smile and lets me in because I asked her nicely. All in good time I try the same thing for my flight back to Boston. The American hostess, a little surprised by my request, confirms me in a polite and very professional way that I do not have enough miles and that the access to the Lounge is therefore forbidden to me. Oh yes We are in Boston, the code switching escaped me. Whoever tries nothing has nothing . [...]