MANAGING ACROSS CULTURES

Managing Across Cultures

Managing Across Cultures

Introduction

There are cases when companies and organizations operating in an industry have a culturally diverse workforce. In such situations, companies will have to make sure that they manage their workforce in an effective manner which will prove to be helpful for the business and will also ensure that the right strategies are formulated and implemented so that the companies can work in a successful manner. This paper will present an overview of the movie, outsourced and will discuss the problems and issues that managers' face while managing across cultures and managing diversity in their organizations.

Discussion

Outsourced is an American comedy (produced by Indians) with a romantic, but still quite realistic look to outsource call centers in India and amusing relationship of people of different cultures. A leading provider of outsourced call centers, India is able to allow Western companies acceptable quality at low prices (due to cheap labor), but the main problem is the lack of knowledge of such outsourcing of national culture. Thus, the film's hero, Todd, whose work has been outsourced, i.e. now for the money he received in Seattle, India will work 8 people, sent the company in India, to train staff and improve productivity. In short, American Indians teaches speaking British English, and quite outdated even for England itself, without any idea about the nuances of American pronunciation, slang, etc. and of course, features nature of Americans to teach them thereby nuances (www.washingtonpost.com).

In this case, as expected, the hero has no idea about the culture and character of the Indians. Hence - and not very funny situation. The film is quite simple and gently talks about the problems faced by a foreigner in India crazy and promiscuous, but I think it's like traveling in such a country, a person must perceive reality. As they say experienced in India with a need to take a large backpack full of humor and good mood and be prepared, of course. Good, useful information on the Internet.

The movie talks about the aspect that culture is a very complex, multi-tiered system. For professionals involved in the structuring of her, there are many difficult problems, many of which have not been overcome yet (www.spiritualityandpractice.com). Probably all this was the basis for the structure of culture considered one of the toughest. Nevertheless, the structuring of culture, sound and logically reconciled, perhaps to do this, it is important to determine the basis of this division. Depending on this, quite rightly, primarily allocate global and national culture. National culture in turn acts synthesis of cultures of different strata and groups of the society. The peculiarity of the national culture, its uniqueness and originality known as manifested in the spiritual (language, literature, music, art, religion), and the material (especially the economic structure, farming traditions of labor and production) spheres of life (www.solarmovie.so).

In accordance with specific careers that are allocated there is a culture of social communities among the families and individuals. Culture is divided into certain species and ...