As we are in 20th century, we call our planet earth as a global village. Due to advancement of technology,communication and political ties. We today can say that wold is a global village and it is not round but flat, This was termed by (Daniel L. Thomson,World is Flat). In this era of globalization and International Trade making big impact on the developing and developed countries economies.
For companies, which want to increase their revenue and presence across the global. The globalization and International trade is an opportunity for this companies,HMM, Now here comes our AREA OF INTEREST management, how would companies manage their offshore presence and make huge impact in their and other lives as well.
To start with lets examine few areas which might come into picture of management and globalization, how this will be sync in to achieve clear objective of companies that is profit.
Management in Multinational Organizations:
Organizations do understand the importance of having global presence and offshore offices, here are few the numbers which might throw some light on the topic of Multi National Companies. Their around 61,000 companies are qualified as MNC in which their are companies which has strength of 250 and companies which has strength of 2,50,000. Most of Multinational Companies are located in US,Japan,Canada and other developed countries. As per the article written by "www-management.wharton.upenn.edu/guillen/files/mneconcept.pdf"
What would be responsibilities of the managers in the Multinational companies differs from company to company, "managing multicultural and trans border companies. Managing a team, which is multicultural, is difficult; the organisation needs to understand that the work culture d...
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Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade
Ethical Issues : Ethical Issues global corporation should not focus on profits, their are few ethical things that should be taken care, for example pollutions, in the process of globalization, exploiting the natural resources and depleting these resources would lead to greater destruction then expected as management of MNC, they have responsibility to make less use of non-renewable resources and sustain the economy growth.
Reference : http://www.seap.usv.ro/annals/ojs/index.php/annals/article/viewFile/335/345
Managerial Culture of USA : The managerial culture of US will be individualistic approach which is indeed good for economic growth.
Reference :http://www.worldbusinessculture.com/American-Management-Style.html
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Globalization is the goal of pursuing opportunities anywhere abroad which all an organization to capitalize on business functions in the countries in which it operates (Pearce & Robinson, 2011, p. 103). It is vital that an organization chose the appropriate timeframe on when and if to advance to a global arena. The following essay will discuss some of the proactive and proactive reasons for going global.
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Multinational enterprises date back to the era of merchant-adventurers, when the Dutch East India Company and the Massachusetts Bay Company traversed the world to extract resources and agricultural products from colonies (Gilpin 278-79). While contemporary multinational corporations (MNCs) do not command the armies and territories their colonial counterparts did, they are nevertheless highly influential actors in today’s increasingly globalized world.
Multinational enterprise (MNE) is “a company that is headquartered in one country but has operations in one or more other countries” (Rugman and Collinson 2012, p.38) that has at least one office in different countries but centralised home office. These offices coordinate global management in the context of international business. MNEs have increasingly essential influence on the development of the global economy and coordinate with other companies in different business environments. However, there are many issues involved with how MNEs operate well overseas, especially in emerging markets (EMs) (Cavusgil et al., 2013, p.5).
Brett, J., Behfar, K. & Kern, M. (2006) ‘Managing multicultural teams’, Harvard Business Review, 84 (11), pp.84-91, Business Source Premier [online].
A well-managed bi-cultural team is proven to be a success because when people from different backgrounds bring their own unique cultural experiences to the situations they face in their companies and this broader perspective of viewpoints tends to allow for a better ultimate resolution, however if those teams are not managed properly, and if the size of those teams are not managed, and the individuals are not catered to, the cons may outweigh the
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Culture can be defined as the beliefs, values and the pattern of behavior of an individual within designated areas. The culture of organizations defines shared values and behavioral expectations. Cultural issues are especially basic issues all around the globe. These issues can happen in various routes relying upon the size, area and the custom culture of that institution. Social issues happen even because of the states of mind and how each individual comprehend in diverse business environment. Today, the corporate administrations and rising business firms have chosen to give the essential attention on trainings and classes at the multicultural working environment that will help them to understand and create
There are a number of issues that affect international business ethics. They include employment practices, human rights, environmental regulations, corruption, and moral obligation of multinational companies. Employment practice refers to the working conditions an employee must work under. This can be very difficult to gauge, because many times the working conditions of a host nation are inferior to those in an organizations home nation. Many organizations have had to fight with these regulations. A good example of this in the trouble Nike found themselves in during the 1990s. There were a number of news reports released about the working conditions of most of its subcontractors were very poor . The Nike Company was not breaking any laws but it did bring into question the ethics of using a sweatshop. After this incident it left a number of questions for the international marketplace. In recent years many companies have cut ties with organizations that use unsafe and unfair labor practice.
With the rapid growth in globalization there are a number of firms who have taken their businesses abroad. Their challenge, cross cultural management and communication. An effective communication strategy begins first with understanding who the sender of the message is and who the receiver of the message is. Many companies have realized this and offer training in the different cultures to help better facilitate communication between leaders (Cross-Cultural Communication, mindtools.com). Without this basic understand between sender and receiver it can be very difficult for companies of multicultural to even begin to communicate. The second important understanding is that leaders must demand a cultural tolerance of acceptable behavior between cultures to facilitate effective communication (Cross-Cultural Communication, mindtools.com).
A question raised here that why we called the world as a Global Village or what does Globalization mean in real? If we look few years back, I was very difficult for people to get them connected or make contact with their dear ones who lived in far areas, people just knew about the famous food of any country but didn’t have availability to have it. People didn’t get full information of any news at the time, what’s going on other countries; they didn’t have any access to make them updated with all this stuff. But now a day, the scenario gets change with the help of new scientific inventions in media sector. Communication is one of the basic elements which play an important role in flourishing the process of globalization in all over the world. Technology is the basic extension of increasing communication at same time in different places. Technology eliminates the concepts of space and distance; it becomes easy for anyone to get connected with anyone at any corner of world through using internet, social websites and technological tools. New inventions in communication and media