Cross-Cultural Human Resources Management
Abstract: As human resources management and organizational culture are closely related, it is very meaningful to study human resource management from the cultural and cross-cultural perspective. Effective management of cross cultural human resources is the guarantee of Chinese enterprises running successfully under cross cultural background and region. The article concerns that the following aspects should be understanding of the cross-cultural human resources management.
Key words: cross-cultural human resources management capability
1 Introduction
Now the world is experiencing the unprecedented political reorganization and the international economy order which changes day by day. This
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The definition of culture in the United States "Lang Man Modern English dictionary" is "artistry of the thought and other activities as well as their production. These definitions are too general and broad. We should study at the point of business management to explore the narrow, more specially cultural essence and the essential factor. The well-known American expert Etal, in the study of organizational behavior, gives the definition to culture. Culture is a set of basic assumptions of the model discovered by a special crowd, when they learned how to adapt to the outside world and solve the problem of the internal integrity. And this set of pattern continuously operates well and is regarded effective. Thus it is treated as an correct way to teach the new members who join this crowd in the sensation, pondering and feeling.
As human resources management and organizational culture are closely related, it is very meaningful to study human resource management from the cultural and cross-cultural perspective.
Seeing from the perspective of human resource management separately, human resource management will tend to take an unified internal position. Its basic requirement is to organize members to work together for the common interests and exclude the effects of the conflict, and so as to the achievement of common goals. But it is often a matter of wishful thinking. There is often a strong unifying culture
A culture is an idealized pattern of meanings, values, and norms differentially shared by the members of a society, which can be inferred from the non-instinctive behavior of the group and from the symbolic products of their actions, including material a artifacts, language, and social institutions.
Culture can be defined as the behaviours and belief characteristics of a particular social, ethnic,
each other in check, ensuring everything is fair and smart, and one group will not overpower the
A culture is the characteristics that relate and reflect on a particular group of people. This may include language, religion, music/arts, beliefs, values, and, overall, their way of life.
My definition of culture is your environmental and social background peered with your experiences. Culture is an essential ingredient in forming identity and self-awareness. The environment can create One's culture that they reside in, the way they are raised, or a collective of blended surroundings.
Even today, divisions in groups have been as a result of continued differences among the uniting groups. Humans have a tendency to incline towards the protection of their interest’s aid favors of their perceived groups. Such favourism makes them advocate fully for their interests posing a challenging opposing side to the interests of their unperceived groups. Many nations today are faced with such opposing groups having differing interests and ideals. People advocating for similar ideals tend to create strong ties of
The two should come together to create mutual understanding of the goals required to achieve success.
Culture: Culture refers to values, languages, symbols, norms, beliefs, expectations that members of a group possess and the good things they produce and use in their life. Culture is the thing that all the members of a group or society follow.
Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.
Culture is defined as “The ideas, attitudes, customs, beliefs, values and social behaviour of a particular group of people or society that are passed on from generation to generation” (Brentnall, A., n.d.).
While there are many various global issues that affect the International Human Resource Management to run efficiently, there are two key concepts that play a major role in understanding how to approach them with cohesive and a well coherent strategy; they are the International Human Recourse Management Strategy and Understanding the Cultural Environment. In the International Resource Management strategy, many companies will do their research in finding companies that offer the
This has highlighted a crucial issue for international companies to be aware of the cross-cultural implications in the conception, design and implementation of the various market entry strategies for the Chinese markets, especially when considering the Human Resources Management strategies since Corporate Strategy will in turn determine the Human Resource (HR) strategy to be deployed.
Culture is a way of life. It can be defined as a group of people linked by geographical location, ethnicity, gender or age. Culture can be reflected through language, clothing, food, behavior, spirituality and traditions. The behavioral patterns developed through culture are difficult to change.
Culture can be defined as “the sum total of the beliefs, rules, techniques, institutions, and artifacts that characterize human populations” or “the collective programming of the mind.
The most recent studies in cross-cultural management reveal that the culture is a very expansive subject for organizations to study, especially for organizations, which hire the most diverse workforce. One definition of a diverse workforce could be as the one, which comes from different ethnic and demographic backgrounds (Plessis, 2011). For studying culture of the diverse workforce, there are two parts to study, the implicit and the explicit culture. The explicit culture includes behavior while the implicit part involves norms and values of individuals (Guang & Trotter, 2012). The explicit culture is already known when workers stay and work in a firm for a length of time, but the most difficult is to understand the implicit culture which is obscured in form of norms and values of the workers. Due to the differences of cultures, workers hold a great potential of variance, variety in terms of their explicit and implicit parts of the culture. The