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