Assignment - Managing Across Cultures

You are asked to advise Managers working for international organisations on the issues involved in managing staff from different cultural backgrounds. How would you start your report - here is an example.

What are the issues - 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 interculturally competent.

The Practice Report -

• What is the topic? - "Managing Across Cultures"
• What does it mean? - How a managers should mange a team of staff from different cultural backgrounds.
• What is the word count? 1,500 excluding the reference section.
• Where do I get the source materials? - from the Link provided.
• Remember - the source materials has to be creditable.
• Cross-cultural communication - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural_communication - this is interesting, but is it creditable?

Introduction - what is the topic - why is it important.

In today global economy, working with people from different cultures is beaming 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 trey 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.

You are asked to prepare a Report based on the reading given to you in your Induction entitled "Managing Across Cultures".