Australia: the egalitarian corporate culture

This post’s topic is Australia, a rich country which once was part of the British Empire and currently is a part of the commonwealth. The contents are going to be organized around two aspects; the first one is an analysis of the Australian corporate culture as it is presented by Baird, Harrison, & Reeve (June 2007) on their publication “The culture of Australian organizations and its relation with strategy”. Then the question for this module is going to be answered, which relates to the stolen generations, a very sensible historical event that even today marks the life of the australian people.

North America: Proof me who you are!

This post is about the biggest economy in the world; the United States of America. The people of this country have a long standing tradition of hard work and individualism, being internationally recognized because of this as workaholics and greedy. But this is an unfair recognition because this behavior has a clear explanation when the culture is considered.

Europe and the German co-determination model

In the diverse European context we can find different organizational practices which tend to reflect the national culture or particular needs of each country. An example of this is the German co-determination model, which is going to be the object of this post.

Map of Europe Taken from: (Central Intelligence Agency - CIA, n.d.)

This post is going to be structured as follows; in the first part I will briefly explain what is co-determination to proceed then to explain a little on how is it implemented and to show some difficulties the French businessmen have when making business in Germany, to finally end by answering the proposed question for this module.