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.

Africa: Ubuntu a philosophy

This post is going to be different from the rest in the sense that I find more useful to answer the proposed question for this topic and then present the class contents, because it is all going to be about a philosophy: Ubuntu.

So before the post I would like to present a video taken from Pedromusicman's channel in You Tube that shows some traditional African dances which carry with them the concept o Ubuntu, feel free to just watch a few parts so you can get an idea of what this is about, I will refer to this video later on.

South Asia: Managing your international sales force.

This post is going to focus on the most successful country in the region which belongs to the so called BRIC group. Yes, it’s India and its fast growing economy.

The first part of this post is going to be the relation of the management styles and the cultural features of a country. The second part is the answer to the proposed question about India as well.

Middle East: Islamic Banking

For this class the lecturer gave us some questions to solve in order to have an extra activity in the Blog, the questions are going to be followed by their answers since they are somewhat of independent. To introduce the topic, and as a partial answer to some of the questions here is this video taken from YouTube from the saarab40 channel, which features a CNN reportage.

East Asia: the Korean and Japanese Management Styles

This week subject is East Asia is the first region we are going to review in the course, the countries that are I this region are: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan. As you may be wandering is a vast region with many study possibilities, but this blog section will focus on the Japanese and Korean Management Styles. For this purpose explaining the concepts of divergence, homogenization and convergence are of topmost importance. 

Source: Own creation, based on the class explanations