Assessment Task: Critically assess management practices and the impact of culture upon them, including work, motivation, entrepreneurship, leadership and team-working.

Impact of culture on work

Management practices are task oriented and relationship oriented. Task oriented relationship is that in which the head fixates on the tasks which need to be accomplished in order to meet several goals or to complete a certain work standard. On the other hand, relationship oriented is a behavior dependent which could be the satisfaction focused by the leader as well as ordinary health of the team members.

To illustrate this , Australian are task oriented in that they want to get a job done while Indians are more relationship focused; more interested in the way they work with other colleagues. Moreover in a task focused relationship there would be high turnover, whereas in the relationship focused the leader is trust worthy.

Impact of culture on Motivation

Motivation is a state arising in processes that are internal and external to the individual, in which the person perceives that it is appropriate to pursue a certain course of action directed at achieving a specified outcome (Rollinson ,2005, pp.189).

Motivation depends on the relationship and cultural factors in which performance plays an important role. In task focused relationship progress and productivity of the individual is measured. On the other hand, in relationship oriented motivation, comfort and feelings of the person towards their team is one of the important factors.

For instant, Indian can definitely do tasks, but you need to invest in the relationship first. The fly in, fly out way of managing projects, where you spend half day checking on progress is not going to optimize the performance of Indian team members.

Impact of culture on Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship can be defined as the ability and willingness to originate a new organization and manage ventures by taking the risk; simply it’s a kind of starting a new business.

We need contingency plans because things could go wrong anytime so it’s better to make back up plans. In addition to we need to keep consistent communication and we should be cynical; believe everything and checking everything twice and have to be extra careful.

Impact of culture on Leadership

Leadership can be defined as the action of social influence where one person serves help and motivate to others for performing well and in the accomplishment of simple task. In servant-leadership; servant serves their followers by wandering around the floor as well as communicating to everyone with sameness in his heart. In addition, leaders also create possibilities to grow and expand the business.

‘All companies have a culture. In order for employees to function and succeed, it is essential they understand and believe in the culture” (Tim Bryce, “Bryce’s Laws”, M. Bryce & Associates)

Impact of culture on team-working

In this era of globalization, many organizations are expanding into various cultures and countries. Some culture favors on equality while some on hierarchy; teams have to treat followers with tolerance and have to inspire the team with their understanding. For instant, when it comes to view on hierarchy and sameness, Australian and Indian are world apart.

This is principally acute because Australian, American and British are quite extreme on equality, whereas Indians are way down on the other end of the axis, the end that favors hierarchy. Indians are really hesitating by asking to the boss about the problems that might embarrass them. Everybody speaks different languages which cause the problem of communication; people have different style of conversation.

References:

1. Emma Connors ,2007 ( Emma Connors travelled to Bangalore while on a Jefferson fellowship) 2. Bryce, Tim. “Bryce’s Laws.” M. Bryce & Associates (MBA) (www.phmainstreet.com/mba). (http://www.martinbauer.com/Articles/How-Culture-Affects-Leadership)