C/B/415. Managing in the Global Context: Overcoming Employees’ Cultural Differences

In the paper the need to understand cultural differences associated with the global workforce is discussed. It advances that the global business environment is beset with variant cultural genetic codes even organisations with serial international-operations experience struggle to cope with it—an observation that echoes the views of experts (Jackson, Luo & Schuler 2004) in this realm. In addition, the paper discusses those avenues wherein employees’ cultural differences could arise. And it offers an understanding for the global manager to overcome them. Regardless of how the global manager goes about them, the report acknowledges that there is no definite model to meet cultural challenges. The only shortcoming would be failure to adapt a chosen model to a given culture-related challenge.