Problems of Intercultural Management

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Problems of intercultural management Challenges of Intercultural Management: Change implementation in the context of national culture Sustaining competitiveness force business organizations to adapt major changes and seek strategies that may be realized in varying, different cultural environments. This presents challenges to multicultural management, in general, and change implementation processes, specifically. Change implementation does no more concern organizational culture only. It is also dependent on understanding different national cultures and having behavioral skills accordingly. Organizations face, thus, constant challenge of change in management. Economic and social forces create a necessity for internal changes in organizations. Globalizing marketplace and fast technological changes force organizations to be superior and be proactive in identifying and evaluating impacts of change. In today’s turbulent work environment, change is a means to keep in competition, to renew continuously organizational structures, directions, and capabilities for customers, employees, and owners. The primary managerial challenge of coping with continuous change is managing and implementing change successfully. Changes in economic and social environments are not the only cause of challenges in organizations. National cultures also have an influence on the organization’s activities and operations. Local employees represent a culture that contains typical elements and aspects of national culture, for example values, ideologies, norms and beliefs, and they have an impact on organizations’ activities and operation because they are brought along to the workplace by local employees. Such elements also influence the organizations’ ability to implement change, especially from leadership and HRM point of view. Both the business environment and national cultures put pressure on

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