tailieunhanh - Practical Applications and Recommendations for HR and OD Professionals in the Global Workplace_3

Tham khảo tài liệu 'practical applications and recommendations for hr and od professionals in the global workplace_3', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Culture Values Beliefs Perceptions Norms and Behaviors 25 normally supersede those of the corporation. Quoting research evidence Adler 1997 explicitly dispels the myth that corporate culture can erase national culture. Hofstede 2001 Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner 1999 and other leading experts are of the same opinion. What about management practices across the globe Is it fair to say that they are not converging either Not quite. After reviewing the literature on this issue Dorfman and House 2004 concluded that there is some convergence of management practices across many countries but there is no gravitation toward a single focal point. In their view most likely there is some convergence toward . practices some toward Western European practices and some toward Japanese practices. Nevertheless the practical reality is that there are bound to be strong residues of local practices in every country. Ultimately this means that a typical multinational will exhibit a variety of management styles around the globe consisting of various mixtures of imported and homemade elements. As a result it is highly unlikely that a single style will prevail in most countries in the foreseeable future. And what of beliefs It is certainly easier to change one s outward behavior such as management practices than one s inner self. Thus when multinationals create commonality across subsidiaries it mostly consists of shared practices and not necessarily values and beliefs French et al. 2008 Hofstede 2001 . So if underlying values and beliefs are resistant to change how can multinationals promote the shared practices that the leaders of an international company wish to see in all their subsidiaries. The Main Measurable Elements of Culture By now it is largely accepted in mainstream social science that culture can be studied objectively and that the results of the analyses can be used to make verifiable predictions though not with engineering precision. Culture consists of components that .