多元化企业管理 multinational enterprises management.docVIP

It is essential for an international company to have a multi-national top management team. Introduction The development of economy and technology deepened economic globalization, and developed the western and eastern cultural interaction further, made the western and eastern world each cultural communication gradual extension. International companies were influenced by the cultural difference deeply, because they had to accept the more and more multi-national employees who worked for the international companies. Furthermore, the most important position in the international companies was their top management. As a result, multi-national top management had great impact on strategies and development of international companies. However, there were disadvantages and advantages in the international companies which had multi-national top management. The drawbacks were that cultural difference made the top managers of multi-national companies have trouble when they run the companies in the foreign countries. The performances of cultural difference were power distance, uncertainty avoidance index, individualism versus collectivism and masculine versus feminality. So, the international companies should make better use of corporate cultural diversity by four ways, such as integrated type of cultural integration, isolated type of cultural integration, alternative type of cultural integration and promoted style of culture integration. On the other hand, the benefits of using the multi-national top management were that multi-cultural differences in international companies could be used as an important competitive advantage to address the challenges of economic globalization. In addition, there were several positive impacts when international companies have a multi-national top management. For example, top manages learnt to analyze and solve problems with a more open mind, top managers had to contact with each other and exchange ideas and perspectives frequently and improves corpo