Management Case

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Management Case

Q1.

SAS is renowned for its unique practices of Human Resources, which includes Recruiting, Hiring, Staff development etc. The company has been popular for its unique practices and quality in United States, however it is not easy to implement the same practices in other country with same cultural values, assumptions and practices. Every country has its own culture and values, hence the company must adopt the practices of that particular country. This is based on the cultural differences found by Hofstede. The theory is based on the basis of cultural diversity that exist between nations and companies.

Business companies and public organizations, various levels of success achieved with its cultural diversity initiatives. Jacqueline A. And John M. Gilbert Ivancevich (2000) studied two similar sized companies that achieved varying degrees of success on the issue of cultural diversity. Used staff surveys, interviews with managers and company records to make the story detailing his efforts on behalf of diversity at the company over time. A multicultural organization designated company has made substantial progress in becoming more diverse (Daft, 2007). The evidence of its success included regional and local awards for diversity, and reflected in prominent business publications. The company designated as a diverse organization was less successful in the inclusion of diverse employees and wanted to do more to achieve. Five key factors distinguish what is fundamental cultural change in the multicultural organization, what is a diverse organization with a superficial commitment to diversity (Lussier, 2009).

The beginning and general management support:

The general direction of the organization multicultural played a more active and assertive role to include cultural diversity, the organization plural.



HR initiatives:

The multicultural organization had more human resources programs aimed at achieving cultural diversity, the organization plural.

Organizational Communication:

Multicultural organization involved in a wide range of employees to shape human resources policies in plural organizational change, efforts to involve employees, were less systematic.

Corporate Philosophy:

In the multicultural organization had a corporate philosophy that governed the policies of diversity, while the plural organization, each plant was free to develop their own philosophy.And this made it easier for plants cancel plural organization's diversity initiatives that were too costly and time consuming.

A useful background information to understand what works well with people of different cultures, is to examine its values.

To examine the values of various cultures, you can understand how they differ among themselves. Geert Hofstede (1993) identified five ...