Post on 04-Feb-2016
Easternvs
Western Culture
Presented by:Avinash Baxla (14PGP009)Choudhari Amit Prakash (14PGP012)Dhende Suraj Prabhakar (14PGP015)E VISHAL MANIKANDAN (14PGP017)Ratish Kumar Mishra (14PGP037)
A Popular View of Culture
O Culture is all about food, language, dress, customs, holidays, etc.
Culture
O Culture is an abstract, dynamic & not easily measurable term used in organizational concept
O Employees carry culture from one organization to other
O Personality characteristics & culture are steadily being recognised in corporate, government & in personal life
West Vs EastO People in the west are usually described
using the following words: Ambitious, Impatient, Proactive, AnxiousO People in the east are described using the
following words: Inter-dependent, Cooperative, Easy goingO This cultural difference affects a person in his
work place, his/her emotional competency and stress handling.
Personality Personality
AA B B
Cultural DifferenceWestern Culture:OGreater skill in entering and leaving a groupOMake friends easilyONo obligation to others
Eastern Culture:ODo not make friends easily, but once made, usually lasts for a long timeOMore obligation to others
Effect of Culture on the Work life
Western:OExpected to work and decide for themselvesORewarded on individual basis
Eastern:OCooperativeOCollective decisions are more commonOPerform better in groups
German Culture
O Decision making is based on logic and analysis of information, rather than on intuition and well developed personal networks.
O Germans tend to focus on achieving the task at hand
O •With their well-defined structures, implies that interpersonal relationships play a secondary role in business dealings.
German Culture
O Individualist
O strictly observed hierarchy
O Decision-making is often a slow
O responsibility for “the good of the community
O Punctuality is essential. (Appointment time is important)
German Culture
O The Germans are very private
O Strict separation between private life and work
O Takes time to forge more personal relationships
O Business relationships are often based on mutual advantage, with the overall task as the central focus
Chinese CultureO Long-term relationships are considered
more valuable
O People will enter the meeting room in hierarchical order
O The collectivist way of thinking
O Small number of close, lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required.
Chinese Culture
O More faith in personal relationships than in written rules and procedures for structuring interactions.
O Relatively more attention to the past and to the longer-term future
O Traditionally, a person's status in the society was based importantly on inherited characteristics such as age, gender, and family.
Distinctive feature of KM approach
Approach to KMAmerican Japanese
1. Mission I love therefore I existI am successful therefore Iexist
2. Mentality Individualism Groupism
3. Focus Explicit, encoded Tacit, subjective knowledge
4. Strategy Knowledge Re-use Creativity, Transformation
5. Means Technologies Market Socialisation
6. Objective Advantage in near future Long term advantage
Cross culture difference between KM approach
INDIAN SAYSLIVE IN TIME
WESTERN SAYSLIVE IN SPACE
INDIAN SAYSBE CONTEMPLATIVE
WESTERN SAYSBE PROFESSIONALS
INDIAN SAYSACCEPT WHAT IT IS
WESTERN SAYSSEEK CHANGE
INDIAN SAYSLIVE IN NATURE
WESTERN SAYSLIVE WITH NATURE
INDIAN SAYSKNOW THE MEANING
WESTERN SAYSKNOW HOW IT WORKS
INDIAN SAYSMEDITATION IS IMPORTANT
WESTERN SAYSARTICULATION IS IMPORTANT
INDIAN SAYSFOCUS ON OTHER’S FEELINGS
WESTERN SAYSFOCUS ON SELF NEEDS
INDIAN SAYSLEARN TO LIVE WITH LESS ASSETS
WESTERN SAYSATTEMPTS TO GET MORE
INDIAN SAYSIDEAL LIFE IS LONG
WESTERN SAYSIDEAL LIFE IS BEING SUCCESSFUL
INDIAN SAYSHONOR AUSTERITY
WESTERN SAYSHONOR ACHIEVEMENT
INDIAN SAYSTRUTH IS GIVEN IT DOSEN’T HAVE TO
BE PROVED
WESTERN SAYSTRUTH HAS TO BE PROVED AGAIN AND
AGAIN
INDIAN SAYSIMPROVEMENT IS AN ONGOING CYCLE
WESTERN SAYSIMPROVEMENT ENDS WHEN A PERSON
REACHES ITS GOAL
CONCLUSION
O Study of different culture will help
managers who supervise foreign nationals,
understands what motivates their employees
O Also it will help managers in operating
companies globally & develop global HR
strategies
O It also help human resource managers to
utilize the employees
ReferencesO “A study of wok values of Type A vs Type B personalities in
American and Indian Culture” by Dr. Sunil K Agarwal, Journal of International Management studies.
O "Cross-cultural communication: East vs. West" by Yaolung James Hsieh in International Marketing. Published online: 2011; 283-307.
O “Work‐family conflict in East vs Western countries” by Zaiton Hassan Maureen F. Dollard Anthony H. Winefield published in Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal.
O A Comparison of East and West Cultures A Comparison of East and West Cultures in Business Life http://www.pabloagnese.com/A%20comparison_Burak.pdf