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You are asked to prepare a report on the above topic, Managing Across Cultures. In class we looked at the Power Point entitled “The Assignment” and “Writing for Success”. In “The Assignment”, you have been given the Introduction:
Introduction
In today’s global economy, working with people from different cultures is becoming the norm. Although this brings many rewards it also introduces challenges for both workers and management alike. All managers know that motivating their staff is the key to a successful business. To do this, they must understand what drives their staff. But what if their staff, seem to think and behave in unexpected ways? This can happen when people from very different cultures work together. Organisations are beginning to realise the importance of training their managers to become inter-culturally competent in order to ensure their staff continue to be motivated and productive.
The main issues to be discussed in this report are:
•How culture influences working styles
•Different management styles
•The importance of training managers to become inter-culturally competent
Now you have to complete the following based on this introduction;
Findings
The Reading – in Reading and Resources
•“Quality management : a cross-cultural perspective
You need to provide a discussion of the issues as given in the Introduction and use the reading as evidence to support your discussion
Conclusion
Conclude on each issue and a final conclusion.
Reference Section
Word count: Including the introduction 1,500 words.
Plagiarism
We need to point out that plagiarism is unacceptable and will be penalised – you will have had a briefing about this during your induction period so will be aware of the implications.All work directly taken from books and journal articles or the internet must be referenced and all assignments will be processed through the anti-plagiarism software TurnitIn.If your work is found to be plagiarised it will be awarded a Fail grade.harvard style of writing assignments
