Sunday, April 7, 2013

Page 7 to 12 deal with high (US) and low (Japan, Malaysia) context culture....and ways of dealing with it.
http://www.slideshare.net/kprabhakar975/inter-cultural-communication-by-madam-marinita-schumacher
 
 

Hofstede's Five Cultural Dimension

Culture defined
Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
1) Power Distance
2) Uncertainty Avoidanc
e3) Individualism
4) Masculinity
5) Long-term orientation

http://www.slideshare.net/preciousssa/hofstede-cultural-differences-in-international-management


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Facilitate Organization Structure Design - Six Questions



Six Questions to ask to facilitate organization design-

a. Standardize span of control- how many people report to a manager?
b. Control and Command - how many layer we allow from the lowest to the highest?
c. Formalization - how do you formalized the info gaps? how do you drive the policies and documentation?
d. Centralization- do you centralized the reporting structure?
e. Departmentalization- Can you combine related department? what kind of department you are organizing them - product, geography, process, matrix, network?
f. Work specialization- do you cover all the work scope in your design?

Organization Structure

http://www.slideshare.net/mubeena/org-design



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