. Cross-border communication difficulties, language problems.
Many Chinese enterprises lack of international talents. Foreign personnel has to be sent in foreign places, but there is no suitable person. First of all, there are few foreign languages spoken, and there are not many college students who have good spoken English, now less and less among Chinese employees, and more and more Chinese student go to study abroad. But once they are done studying abroad, their spoken English for example is still not perfect. And this situation has an obvious impact on the speed of development of Chinese enterprises, which is not good because it makes it slower.
4. Conflict of Interest.
After the products of many Chinese companies went out, the first
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Cultural Conflicts. To make the culture of the parent company accepted by the staff in the country is very difficult. There are also many examples of the failure of the world's multinational companies and the Western powers, as example Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq IT Of the industry Five hundred Strong, combined with the decline in efficiency, not as good as imagined. In Chinese enterprises in Africa, it is relatively safe to think of ways and means to get to know each other after the employees of the two countries understand each …show more content…
Employees are also better at learning, improving and surpassing themselves to achieve their personal value. Relatively speaking, China is a relatively large power distance country. In China, the status symbol is very important. The privileges of superiors are often considered to be reasonable. This privilege has greatly strengthened the implementation of subordinates power by superiors. Many countries in the African continent have two polar phenomena on this issue. The people with high income and high social status belong to a group with relatively small distance rights, but those with low income and low social status have very large rights. These characteristics are obviously not conducive to the cooperative work relationship between the staff and the managers and the continuous learning and progress of the employees in the enterprise. Therefore, it should be adopted among Chinese enterprises in Africa the relationship between employees and managers to build collaborative work and learning opportunities for employees at work, so that they continue to progress to the humanism policy, managers need to consciously reduce the distance difference between the internal power in practice, it will be better to achieve management
With their production facilities being located in the US the stability of the dollar can have an impact on the corporation in multiple ways. Weak dollar can decrease assets and ability to acquiring credit. Sales can be less profitable in foreign markets in comparison to foreign currency. T2 Intense competition
The kids be taught to be respect and follow the seniority’s instruct since they were young, and everyone around them are all doing like this, so the high-power distance’s concept be with them the whole life. When they grow up, they follow the teacher’s and parents’ words and after they get in the society get in the work, they would follow the leader’s words. Even though there are some mistakes, like the story happened among the captain and the assistant. High-power distance come from the culture, culture influences
Similar Starts, Contrastive Outcomes "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts" was a famous quote related by a british prime minister named Winston Churchill. The powerful leaders who are to be introduced made valiant efforts through their legacy. Taking a moment to consider how most multinational companies have reached such success, realize that strong associations and just leaders are mainly what determines how much progress can be made. A strong belief in the ultimate outcome is very helpful when dedicating oneself to a cause.
One significant aspect of the overseas Chinese experience
First and foremost, one must acknowledge the plainly visible fact that the Chinese economy has grown exponentially since the process of integration into the global economic system began. China 's comparative advantages, particularly in the labor sector, has transformed it into the second largest recipient of FDI in the world.1 Over the course of the last 20 years, exports have grown approximately 17.1 percent per year.2 This ultimate result of this investment and trade has been an overall growth rate 8 percent per annum,3 which would have been completely unattainable without the country 's engagement in globalization. Foreign investments have
This can affect the performance of the business done in China, if the first person in the hierarchy does not understand much about the business. In addition to that, proving a point in china, even in business is
6 Case Study: General Electric Expat Policy The following is a case study of a former expat Employee of General electric company who lived in china for 5 years for the purpose of the overseas assignment. The case studies the policy of the company and the certain processes followed by the problems that the expat faced during the term of his overseas assignment. Given the globalization, it has become the critical part of an organization to drive the expatriate opportunities for the their employees which in turn helps the organization to retain the top talent as well as to build the talent pool for more challenging roles with global best experience back in their country.
Cultures with high power distance accept an unequal distribution of power and the fact that “some members have greater resources and influence than others”(p.50). When James Carter speaks to his boss, it seems that they are equal in power. James does not afraid to say what he thinks, and even the call the one with higher position by his name. The American always expects egalitarianism so it will be great if there ia not formalized hierarchical structure in community and social relationship. However, in China, it is different, relationships are hierarchical in terms of age, political status, wealth and so on.
A culture, by definition, is a set of shared beliefs within a society; learning how to interact with people from different cultures is important in order to communicate and work with each other. It helps us become understanding of one another and widens our perspective of what the world has to offer. To be able to cross cultural communicate with others, the first step is to be aware that every culture is complex and has its differences. While traveling to new countries and trying to understand each other, there is a large possibility of miscommunication, which can come in the form of misinterpreting messages or body language; therefore, it is crucial to keep an open mind whilst communicating. There are multitudes of factors in various cultures that play a role in decision making, so being aware of the expectations that are influenced by someone’s culture will help you understand their choices.
The article When Does Power Disparity Help or Hurt Group Performance?, published in 2015 by the Journal of Applied Psychology, discusses how power disparities and social hierarchies impact a group of individuals and whether they help or hamper group performance. Furthermore, the goal of this research is to examine and dissect the relationship between the power holder and those he or she asserts his or her power over. The researchers have one main hypothesis that they intend to test throughout the article: the power holder’s competence and leadership dictate how power disparity and group performance mesh with one another. To be more specific, the more competent a power holder proves to be, the more the power disparity incentivizes groups to work effectively and efficiently.
In this case, our stakeholders are as follows: 1) Google Inc. – Google is first and foremost a business and its primary goal is to make money. But the company also should take into account the reputation factors that could have negative effect because of moving to China. They had their reputation on stake. Their main purpose is to provide information to people but they went against this principle and violated the human right for freedom of
Lack of available experience in the Industry which is new to China. Disadvantages of Hiring Expats for your International Business There are many cons of hiring expats also. Here are some of the most common reasons given below. 1.
nternational marketing in export and franchising Objectives International marketing is the export, franchising, joint venture or full direct entry of a marketing organization into another country. • To bring countries closer for trading purpose and to encourage large scale free trade among the countries of the world. • To bring integration of economies of different countries and there by to facilitate the process of globalization of trade. • To establish trade relations among the nations and thereby to maintain cordial relations among nations for maintaining world peace. • To facilitates and encourage social and cultural exchange among different countries of the world.
Multinational corporations had brought numerous opportunity to developing country such as job opportunity, increasing guarantee at employment rate. It is benefited for developing country to improve the economy. According to Management development in international companies in China (Stephen T.K. Li, 1999), China is obtained 10% average annual by multinational companies and foreign companies create over 8 million job opportunity to China people, most importantly, China had a low employment rate before multinational companies enter into China. Consequently, the international companies are benefited to developing economy to developing
Abstract Communicating successfully with people from different cultures can be a real challenge. Cultural differences may lead to tensions, arguments, and even wars between peoples and nations. This paper deals with one of the most common problems in intercultural communication cultural shock, it introduces its concepts and basic traits, causes and symptoms, stages of adjustment and strategies of overcoming culture shock with the aim of improving intercultural communication competence for smoothing intercultural communication. Key words: Cultural shock; Intercultural communication; Stages of adjustment; Intercultural communication competence Wang, M. L. (2015).