Cultural Differences Reports Samples For Students

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Intercultural Communication Challenges for an American Company that Moves Production to China

1. Introduction
In times of globalization companies are free to choose any location of their production, and those of them that are planning becoming international and enjoying economy of scale tend to locate production in cheap-labor countries disregarding how remote they are from headquarters, as labor cost savings are expected to exceed shipping costs. With high labor costs in the U.S., the American companies tend to move manufacturing to such destinations as China, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh etc.
Cultural differences are one of the issues that may undermine success of such moves, especially when the ...

Introduction

With increased globalization, businesses find opportunities to reach out to the global and international markets to enhance their performance. However, the need to serve several markets presents the challenge of having to deal with differences between the business orientation and the markets with cultural difference being among the most prevalent factors that requires critical consideration by marketers in order to enhance their operation’s success. In that consideration, this analysis seeks to demonstrate the challenges that cultural difference presents to businesses and the effective application of marketing strategies in addressing them. This has been done by analyzing Li-Ning’s ...

An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for

Brisbane City Council Library Services
Collection Development for Library Services and Course Number
3. Initial ESL Collection Development
The “Success in Reading English: An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for Brisbane City Council Library Services (BCCLS)” is our group proposed library collection project. As part of the detailed overview and discussion of the library and information services, the context in which we anchor our initial ESL collection development is at the city of Brisbane Queensland, primarily; and secondarily, the online community. Brisbane, as Australia’s largest local government, has to serve its more than two million ...

Executive summary

This report takes on a personal, critical incident to illustrate various approaches in understanding cross cultural communications. It aims to explore the communication problems which arise from cultural differences. By way of a narrative inquiry and analysis, the critical incident is related to general workplace miscommunications which happen when verbal and non verbal communications do not cross the same level of understanding between the sender and the receiver. This report applies three specific theories: theory of verbal communications by Mellor (1990), theory of non verbal communications by Ekman & Friesen (1969), and theory of individualism and collectivism by Hofstede (1980) to ...

Planned Walmart Entry into the United Arab Emirates.

Preparation for market entry: An analysis of the target culture
As Walmart plan to enter the UAE market, there is a need to invest a lot of time and resources in understanding more about the culture of the people of the UAE. There is a great difference between culture in Walmart’s home market, USA, and the culture in the target market (UAE). This cultural difference may become a barrier to business performance if it is not handled well. Walmart should therefore study UAE culture exhaustively before it sets foot there. This includes an understanding on how culture influences ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

With constant changes in the environment, organizations are forced to expand their market. In order to do so, organizations have relied upon the use of entry strategy. Nokia is one of the organizations that have focused on using only joint venture as an entry strategy. Using joint venture does have many benefits and advantages associated with it but the limitations and challenges are far more advanced. Due to such reasons, only focusing on joint ventures could enhance the risks for the organizations in the market.

INTRODUCTION

Joint venture is one of the most prominent market-entry strategy that both national and ...

ABSTRACT

Risks and assumptions analysis play a pivotal role in success of a project. After the identification of all the possible risks, all risks need to be quantified though critically examining the degree of impact the risks would have one the outcome of the project and then prioritized. Economic analysis could be used as one of the tools for assessing and managing risks. The economic analysis of projects is carried out before actually investing in it and is conducted throughout the project analysis when necessary, that is, design and preparation phase, implementation phase and post evaluation phase of the project ...

Executive Summary

International growth of a company is strictly defined by the expertise of its managers in training and developing human resources abroad that can work with the organizational structure of the parent company. But training employees abroad is considerably a demanding task. This is especially because of the cross-cultural differences that will hinder most of the usual training and incentive programs that are based out of the ethics of parent corporation. It is essential that the parent corporation understand the cultural practices as well as sensitivities of the target country before venturing into business with it. This is where the ...

Introduction

Many people think that English Premier League consists of nothing, but players, clubs and supervisory authorities. In reality, the Football Association Premier League (also known as FAPL) is registered as a corporation in the United Kingdom. Legally, each club, which participates in the tournament, is registered as a shareholder with one vote (The FAPL, 2014). In order to oversee daily operations of the league, the clubs elect the chief executive, chairperson and board of directors (Singh, 2015). Despite the fact that the Football Association does not directly participate in the daily operations of the League, it has special veto ...

Culture refers to how a person thinks and functions represented by eating, dressing, working and interactions behaviors. Culture creates many impacts towards the operation of global businesses (Aswathappa 2010). Eastern and western cultures differ in cultural elements in both social and business environments. The following paper represents a case of the United Kingdom firm that received a complaint from Chinese clients over a bad product that affects customers. Lane Crawford wishes to close the contract with Alexander Mcqueen because of complaints from customers. In order to resolve the issue Alexander Mcqueen had to send a team of experts to China, but unfortunately they barely ...

Introduction

Multinational companies, in their objective of developing business practices, increase profitability and overcome any problems associated with the saturation of their existing markets, expand their operations to an international platform. When a company makes a decision of marketing its products at the international level within the field and the theory of international marketing, a principal decision is related to standardization and localization.
A company has to decide whether to use a standardized marketing mix with a single marketing strategy all over the world, or to adjust the marketing mix and strategies for fitting into unique and distinct dimensions of every single local market. ...

Background

Pepperidge Farm is a United States bakery located in Norwalk Connecticut. It was established in 1937 by an American, Margaret Rudkin, who named it Pepperidge after a tree that is located on their property at Fairfield Connecticut ("Pepperidge Farm® – Heritage and History"). The bakery specializes in Milano, Nantucket cookies, varieties of bread and goldfish crackers. The business was born out of her attempts to bake a preservative-free bread for her third born son who was asthmatic and thus allergic to commercially made bread that was laden with preservatives. She ended up making bread so good that her son’s ...

Glocalizaton concept and its relation to standardization-adaptation debate in marketing literature review

What is glocalization
Glocolization is a term that was introduced in early 90s by Robertson, it comes from combination of two words; globalization as well as localization. The globalization refers to the flexibility that is brought about by countries allowing the international forces to have impact on their local market environments, so as to attain some economic growth. Furthermore the term localization refers to the reiterating that is brought about by regions in order to maintain and protect some local culture and local conditions from them being carried away completely by the globalization forces. Therefore, glocalization attempts to balance ...

This report analyses the most recent financial reports of two companies; Sino Gas and Energy of Australia (2014), and Solar World of Germany (2015). Sino Gas and Energy reported total provisions of $97,166 that constituted 0.09% of the total assets. Solar World reported total provisions of k€ 49,466 that constituted 5.69% of the total assets. The provisions for the two companies are listed below in descending order based on their book values:

Sino Gas and Energy $

Other provisions 60,837
Employee entitlements 36,329
Total 97,166
Solar world k€
Warranties 24,653
Pensions 10,704
Litigation risks 9,190
Other ...

Introduction

Internationalization is one of the strategies that businesses use for their growth. The strategy entails expansion into other markets and regions through various entry methods. In that view, the strategy entails various factors consideration as well as a change in organization structure. In that respect an organization that considers internationalization must consider the suitable structure as well as the environment of the new market as a means of enhancing its fit for the market. Thus, this report presents a summary of Blackberry’s considerations in the internationalization through the FDI method. The report presents considerations for aspects and the ...

Executive Summary

The contemporary business environment is characterized by globalization. This makes it imperative for the companies to understand and adapt to the local cultures through their internationalization strategy. This paper builds on the theoretic implication of Hofstede cultural dimensions to shape the understanding of the importance of cultural adaptation in the internationalization of operation. The relationship between company strategy and culture is the focus on which this report considers the problems that businesses might have to deal whilst working across many cultures. The report will use Virgin Atlantic Airways to illustrate the challenges that firms might face while operating in ...

What leadership considerations must an organization weigh in selecting another country to open a location such as a manufacturing plant?

While choosing to open a new location in another country, the most important leadership consideration is having strong sense of knowledge as well as experience of the leader in being able to handle employees in a cross cultural environment. The leader must be able to manage the organization in a way to form a balance between the home culture and the host cultural environment. Some of the issues that the leader must be able to handle strongly include sensitivity of the cultural differences, the difference between the laws and regulations of both countries, the difference between the business ethics and practices etc. The leader ...

Introduction

Music has no boundaries and is listened by all sections of society, globally. Whether it is in English, German, French, Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic, Urdu, or any other language, music is enjoyed by one and all for its sheer power of attraction. It is not necessary that all audiences like the same kind of music, and it is also not true that all artists are liked by all. Tastes differ, and preferences are many. While some would pledge their hardcore support for the songs sung by Madonna, or a Lady Gaga, they need not necessarily have to agree that they are ...

Current marketplace has many opportunities to involve intellectual resources from all countries of the world though that means the diversity of cultural backgrounds of people engaged. Charlene Solomon and Michael Schell (2009) in the book Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with a Global Mindset present the definition of a global mindset and the model that help to transform the awareness of cultural similarities and differences into effective and profitable usage of the intellectual potentiality. Consideration of different cultural particularities such as values and behaviors of customers, colleagues, and suppliers is important for success on both individual and ...

VERO MODA

Management and staffs
Dear colleagues/employees,
I am glad to submit a detailed report of our newly proposed VERO MODA outlet in Brunei Darussalam. Requesting everyone to spare few minutes and look through the proposed outline drafted.
Sincerely,

Mission Statement

The mission of a new VERO MODA outlet in Brunei Darussalam is to expand our business in the Asian market. Our business is targeting new customer base with preferential tastes that present sharp contrast from the Western culture. Owing to Brunei’s geographic proximity to Singapore and Malaysia, it is a fresh region for our growth. Our motto here is to identify ...

Report

The term known as "Code of ethics" explains the rules and regulations that are formulated within an organization or team.As per Thomas Edison , "Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
The term ethical code encompasses different parameter and may be elaborated as “A guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly and with integrity. A code of ethics document may outline the mission and values of the business or organization, how professionals are supposed to approach problems, the ...

Cross Cultural Management in Indonesia

Introduction
In setting their analytical and business priorities, it is essential for entrepreneurs and businessmen to recognize and make use of cultural advantages to propel and achieve success in their business. It to a large extent involves the ability to take advantage of cultural differences and in this particular case between Indonesia and Australia. Entrepreneurs and Australian business leaders should indulge in plans of seeking opportunities and conduct their businesses in an advantage seeking manner to predict demand for products that are novel to consumers in Indonesia and other parts of the world (Basri and Indonesia Update Conference. (2004, ...

ZARA

Executive Summary:
Zara has maintained the same business model in its internationalization process as well. According to this model, Zara aims to maintain ownership of most of its stores rather than franchising them out and sustain in-house production rather than outsourcing it. The advantage of this model is that Zara can maintain its competitive edge over other competitors like H&M and also ensure quick delivery of market needs.
This paper aims to highlight the international marketing strategy and the extent to which it will be standardized and adapted into different countries. Expanding into the international market will ...

Introduction

This book report considers an intercultural Communication book, Principles of Intercultural Communication, by Igor E. Klyukanov. The book was published in the year 2005 by Pearson Education Inc. The author of the book is an experienced professor of Communication studies at the Eastern Washington University. On top of serving as an editor for the international Journal of Communication, Igor E. Klyukanov has written at least 50 articles as well as books in the field of culture, communication, and language. With his experience Klyukanov has authored this particular book configuring it within ten essential principles, “Principles of Intercultural communication. “ He ...

Introduction

Intractable conflicts are hard to resolve because their sources are often deeply entrenched and closely interwoven. Most conflict resolution strategies fail to account for the complex nature of those cause or attempt to speed the whole process of conflict resolution and in the process are likely to produce ineffective results in resolving disputes. The underlying sources of a conflict are what make it difficult to manage. Due to the uniqueness of each conflict, there are many underlying causes of difficulty in managing conflicts. The ‘source’ of an interpersonal conflict is the underlying reason for the emergence of conflict (Cooke, 2006). ...

Arguably, globalization and information technology has tremendously converted the world into a global village. Therefore, the entire sectors of human life have become diverse. In the business sector, it is crucial to deal with diversity as it affects marketing, product and service delivery, as well as consumer behavior. Hence, in order to deal with, and embrace diversity it is important to understand other cultural beliefs and activities. In order to deal with diversity, I participated in a Brazilian cultural celebration; analytically, the cultural activity had differences and similarities to my Chinese culture, as well as been educative.

The cultural activity I ...