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SHR053-6 Personal and Professional Development - Majan University College

Managing across Cultures

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding
- Comprehensive appreciation of cultural elements and dimensions influencing behaviours at work

2. Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
- Able to complete tasks reflecting the communication skills required in both academic and professional contexts in cross-cultural settings.

The Practice Report

You are asked to prepare a report on the above topic, "Managing Across Cultures". Also, in class we looked at the Power Point entitled "The Assignment" and "Writing for Success". In "The Assignment", you have been given the Introduction:

Introduction
In today's global economy, working with people from different cultures is becoming the norm. Although this brings many rewards, it also introduces challenges for both workers and management alike. All managers know that motivating their staff is the key to a successful business. To do this, they must understand what drives their staff. But what if their staff, seem to think and behave in unexpected ways? This can happen when people from very different cultures work together. Organisations are beginning to realise the importance of training their managers to become inter-culturally competent in order to ensure their staff continue to be motivated and productive.

The main issues to be discussed in this report are:
• How culture influences working styles
• Different management styles
• The importance of training managers to become inter-culturally competent

Now you have to complete the following based on this introduction.
Findings
The Reading - in Reading and Resources on this BREO site:
Vecchi, A. and Brennan, L. (2009) Quality management: a cross-cultural perspective.Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 16 (2)

You need to provide a discussion of the issues as given in the Introduction and use the reading as evidence to support your discussion

Conclusion

Conclude on each issue and a final conclusion.

Attachment:- Personal and Professional Development.rar