tailieunhanh - Doing business across cultures_5

Tất cả các kịch bản biến đổi khác nhau xuất hiện trong thực tế. Dựa trên nghiên cứu và tư vấn của chúng tôi, chúng tôi liệt kê các tình huống khó xử thường xuyên định kỳ cho các kết hợp khác nhau có thể. | CORPORATE CULTURE based interviews. This enables us to identify the common features and underlying constructs that underpin them. We are therefore able to apply clustering or factor-like analysis to reduce these to a representative set of golden dilemmas which are in effect the tensions commonly held by the senior management team. FREQUENTLY RECURRING DILEMMAS All scenarios for different transformations appear in practice. Based on our research and consulting we now list the frequently recurring dilemmas for different possible combinations. For completeness we show all combinations although as can be expected and as indicated above some occur more frequently than others. We also suggest initial ideas on how each dilemma could be reconciled. Transformation away from an Eiffel Tower Transformations 1 3 In many of our organizational culture profiles we see a shared desire to get away from the Eiffel Tower type of culture. Today fairly highly-developed hierarchical thinking needs to become more egalitarian and formalized sets of rules need to become guidelines in which people are empowered. There s nothing wrong here but this logic didn t seem to work in the early stages of a process where the US-based semiconductor manufacturer AMD opened a plant in Dresden in the former East Germany. Could the Silicon Valley spirit of passion time pressure and doing the impossible with a limited number of people be brought to life in a region that lived for decades under the communist system Here was a chance to put this commitment to the ultimate test. Would the formula work in this context How would the different cultures work with each other 119 BUSINESS ACROSS CULTURES A famous German Eiffel Tower to American Guided Missile dilemma is the distinction between solving problems by reasoning and logical insight on the one hand or by empiricism and pragmatism on the other. From the German perspective the Americans were too often in team meetings discussing this or that initiative. .