Tina Tran
BADM3023
Prof. Stockman
Due 21 Jan 2018
Singaporeans and Cultural
After many years of unremitting efforts since independence, Singapore is not only known for its clean and beautiful country. In addition to being modern and civilized, it is also known as one of Asia’s largest financial center. Singapore is the country that have multiple nationalities. More than seventy percent are Chinese, the rests are Malay and Indian. It is also a country with a very diverse culture. Singaporean attach seriously in communication culture. Singapore has four official languages, those are Hyphenation, Mandarin, Sri-Lanka, and English. English is the language used in business and administration and is widely used. Almost all Singaporeans speak two
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Business cards are importance to Singaporeans. When meeting and discussing business with Singaporean, business cards must be exchanged with two hands and with full respect to each other’s business cards. Especially it has to be written in English. Building relationships with each other is very important in doing business in Singapore. Polite is an integral part of a successful business relationship in Singapore. Polite is necessary but it does not affect Singapore’s business decisions. Singaporean must feel comfortable working with each other. Besides being polite, age and seniority are also respected in the Singapore business culture. According to Commisceo Global, “the family is the center of the social structure and emphasize unity, loyalty and respect for the elderly.” In a group, member of a delegation are usually the ones with the highest in age will be assigned as leader. In addition, Singaporeans are very focusing on faces. Faces in Singapore are reputation. According Larry Kulchawik, “When doing business, individuals are expected to have good character and personal dignity. Singaporean strive for harmonious relationships. Business friendships are based on integrality, good character and honor.” They believed having face is the mark of personal qualities. In Singapore, the person who have high reputation will automatically be respected and shown deference by other. They feel offended when a person that close them, and treated other with bad manner that could damage their face. Show anger or emotions or raise your voice are seen as bad manner. Compare to the United States, Singaporeans take it very seriously. There will be nothing that can offer them is more important than dealing with gaining Singaporeans’ reputation
Singapore is a city-state main island that is in Southeastern Asia, located off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of Indonesia between latitudes 1º 09´N and 1º 29´N and longitudes 103º 36´E and 104º 25´E. The Malay Peninsula is about 85 miles (137 kilometers) north of the Equator and consists of the diamond-shaped island called Singapore. Singapore lies directly between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean with the makeup of 63 separate islands. The total land area of Singapore is 704 square kilometers (272 square miles). The lowest point on Singapore is sea level and the highest point is Bukit Timah at the lofty elevation of 162 meters (531 feet). (Szczepanski,) Nearly two-thirds of Singapore’s island is less than 50 feet (15 meters) above sea level. The eastern part of Singapore Island is a very low plateau cut by erosion into an intricate pattern of hills and valleys.
The culture in Singapore is very formal, group oriented and much of the communication is done via non-verbal methods. In Singapore, the needs of the group or the company in this case, are given higher preference over the individual needs. The success of company is more important than the work that a person does. Since the culture is very formal, some things are not said by an employee to his manager or by the manager to his employee. Non-verbal cues are to be picked up to see if the employee is happy or not or if the manager is happy or not. A hierarchical structure is used and there is a clearly defined boundary of the individual. The employees are expected to follow this structure within the company and stay within their boundary. Relationships between employees and managers take time to develop and it is considered important that the manager plays close attention to the needs of the employees. The manager should realize that each employee has a part to play in the role of the running of the company. Keeping yourself within the duties of the role brings order within the organization and everything remains in a well defined manner. The managers in Singapore try to keep a general view about the life of the employee outside the organization. The manager tries to learn as much as possible about the family of his subordinate to make sure that he understands that
The essay will describe the concept of organizational culture and national culture. In the course of trying to describe both types of culture; subcultures and socialization examples will be discussed. A few real world examples will be mentioned in an attempt to further explain the topics in the essay. There are many similarities to how organizations and nations are structured and shaped by culture. The concept of cross-cultured management and multinational corporations are also a concept that organizations use to explain the behavior of their culture. Finally the essay will discuss how organizational and national cultures are interrelated. The interrelationship can be explained in the cultural dimensions and how the influence behavior and management.
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Organizational culture and commitment have considerable importance in industrial and organizational environment. Culture is a coherent system of assumptions and basic values, which distinguish one group to another and familiarizes its choices. Hence, organizational culture implies 'a pattern of basic assumptions that invented, discovered and developed by a given group as it learns from external and internal adoption. It has worked well enough to be considered valid and to be taught a new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to the work environment.
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Singapore has a vast pool of English-speaking workers that are motivated. This workforce is rated as the best labor force in the world.
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These include Mandarin (36.3%), English (29.8%), Malay (11.9%) and Tamil (3.2%). Other languages include Hokkien (8.1%), Cantonese (4.1%), Teochew (3.2%), other Indian languages (1.2%), other dialects of Chinese (1.1%), and other (1.1) (“East & Southeast Asia: SINGAPORE,” 2016). Chinese is the predominant ethnic group with seventy-four percent of the population. Malay is the second most dominant group at thirteen percent. Nine percent of the population identifies their ethnicity as Indian, while the remaining three percent classify their ethnicity as “other” (“Country Profile - Singapore,”
...for their casual conversations with fellow Singaporeans. Every country has their own accent in their language, and the impending replacement of a localized accent for a western accent sees the vital need for the government and the people to settle at a compromise to find an area where they are able to speak Standard English without compromising the Singaporean identity. Therefore, the key to ensuring maintenance of Singaporean culture and identity is to allow everyone to adapt their communication styles accordingly to different situations in Singapore. In tandem, Singaporeans can capitalize on their ability to be bilingual and not actively reject their ethnic or native language. Moreover, the government should actively engage campaigns and strategies to prevent the loss of Singapore’s culture and identity through regular surveys and reviews on the education system.
In addition, the second different culture is business card etiquette. In Malaysia, usually the business card is given out by the visiting party. When given or receiving a business card, must hold the card with both hand. Before putting the card into the pocket, must briefly study as seen as respect. If want to presenting the business card to Chinese partners, better translate into the Chinese, because this can make easily to Chinese partners read more detail. In Japan, business card is very important to Japanese business etiquette, usually their business cards have 2 sided, there are include Japanese and English languages. When Japanese presenting their business card, they are using the both hands and bow their hand while accepting card to others, and receiving the card from other people always using the same technique as well. Japanese usually would not straight to put the card into the pocket, they will prepare a card case and briefcase to store the card.
Singapore is emerging as a popular destination for the international students to study. Singapore is prominent all over the world for its vibrancy and numerous tourist destinations. Each year, Singapore government invests large sum of money to improve the education system and provide students better opportunities so that they can grow and excel. If you are looking for better opportunities obtain higher education in Singapore, then Singapore is the place to be. The facilities and educational environment provided to students in Singapore is top-notch and the strength of Singapore’s Education system lies in its bilingual policy.
Wee, L. (2010). ‘Burdens’ and ‘handicaps’ in Singapore’s language policy: on the limits of language management, Language Policy (9), 97-114