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Executive Summary This assignment will write about a country’s culture to understanding the importance of Cross Culture management. Globalization and developments was resulted the Cross Culture management become a significant factor affect or transformed an organization operation mode and organization successful international business development. The effective Cross Culture management can help us to learn and acquire different country culture to meet a variety future need in the new business environment.
In this report will explore the nature of South Korea culture and to analysis their language, religion, and economic. In addition, this report will examine how the culture variation affecting the international business success. 1. 0 Introduction As the time went by and the globalization enables enterprises face growing competition in the market. Advancement and development in technology also enable the enterprises around the world can have communication with others more convenient and closer.
But the different cultural backgrounds have different cultural alee and norm that will make the multinational companies face the challenges of diverse cultures. Cultures in Eastern and Western countries are different, Western countries are more open while the Eastern countries are more conservative. Through cross cultural management will help the multinational enterprises better understand the culture of different countries and the business can also have a good development in places outside their usual environment country.
The following will analysis the South Korea culture to explain why chooses this country as the protagonist of this port and talk about the country culture element to see how the culture run in this country. In addition, this report will also describe the country business practices that global managers should be noted to help them get more information and let they can integrate into the local more easily. 2. 0 Analysis of South Korea 2. 1 Reason for choosing South Korea South Korea is located in Eastern Asia on the southern part of the Korean Peninsula with a population of about 500,000.
This country has a long history and it with China ND Japan has a long period of time interaction so that generate a unique cultural and develop their own traditions (Chon, 2012). In Korea, the traditional building such as palaces and temples was combined with the modern technologies on the same piece of land, creating a different urban landscape. Furthermore, its industry, trade, commerce and other aspect development all have good performance and rapidly. Due to these factors, it attracts many foreign investments come to invest. 2. 2 South Korea Culture 2. 2. 1 Language Language is an important communication tool.
It can help build a bridge of communication between people of different cultures and understanding each other view. In addition, the language can also let people through it to create positive and friendly relations. For the global managers, language is an important matter that they must learn. Hanged is a South Korea official alphabet and most Korean normally used their language conversations with other people and rarely uses the English (Korea Tourism Organization, 2013). Therefore, the global manager must have the basic Korean conversation skills to communicate with the local staff.
In many countries, people often say ‘no’ this word in their daily life but in South Korea the Korean people think that this word etiquette is poor and they will avoid using the word in conversation and use other phrases to express their feelings. Hence, global managers will be hard to get their true intentions. They should pay more attention in this matter and avoid unpleasant conversation. Furthermore, body posture is another important thing that global managers must be noted during the meeting such as listless and overly expressive body movement (World Business Culture, 2012). . 2. Religion Religion can shape the people’s thinking and behavior and it has a great impact on the social value system and marketing value system (Korea. Net, 2013). In addition, religion can also change the peoples’ lifestyles, perspectives and consumption patterns. Thus, the global manager must clearly to understand the country religion faith to avoid the business operational problems due to religious issues. Confucianism has strongest culture influence in Korea and stressed the responsibility, loyalty, honor, filial piety, respect for age and seniority and sincerity Chon, 2012).
This cultural also impact Korean to handle business modalities, especially during the decision-making and negotiations so that will need to take some time to make the final decision (Chon, 2012). Therefore, the global managers should remain patient during the business negotiations and maintain friendly relations with them let the business proceed smoothly. 2. 2. 3 Economic A country economic performance has a great relationship with its cultural background. Culture promotes individualism, communication problems, issues of trust and compromise (Swoon, 2005).
These issues will impact the trade cooperation and national development, lead the result in economic performance is poor. Development corporate projects or implementing new policies, the most important thing the most important thing is to have good teamwork, good communication and trust so as to effectively achieve your goals and achieve economic benefits. Therefore, the global managers cannot ignore the culture influences economy. According to (Swoon, 2005) this article, the lifetime employment and seniority this culture in South Korea was disappearing gradually.
Because of this factor affect the employees’ loyalty to their employer companies decline. Moreover, Korean people tend to do part-time job and the initiative and creativity lower than full-time. Therefore, the government encourages people to entrepreneurship and creativity thereby reducing the country investment rate. This cultural for South Korean future economic is unfavorable. 3. 0 Conclusion Each country has a different culture. Expatriate managers must be able to master the local culture before they can effective to manage a company.
In the above, this report as mentioned the South Korea language, religion and economic issues and these all issues are closely related to the culture. If the expatriate managers not have to learn the culture, they will appear negative impact on the communication or implementation plan because the language, religion and economic all are formed by the culture. Therefore, through this report can let the expatriate managers know what the importance in cross cultural management and understanding of the South Korea culture to help them can manage the business of overseas company effectively.