GLOBAL ORGANIZATION
Global Organization
Trend toward expansion into global market
Companies attempt to gain a competitive advantage
New market of potential customers
Lower labor cost to work in their production facilities
ICT enables work to be done around the globe
Global changes
European Economic Community
North American Free Trade Agreement
ASEAN
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Global Culture
Behavior in organizational settings does indeed
vary across cultures
Culture
The set of shared values that help people in a group, organization or society understand which actions are considered acceptable and which are deemed
unacceptable
Diversity
Levels of Diversity
Surface-level diversity
Easily perceived characteristics
Gender
Race
Ethnicity
Age
Disability
Deep-level diversity
Diversity Management
The process and programs by which managers
make everyone more aware and sensitive to the needs and differences of others
Culture
Hofstede
Individualism
Collectivism
Moorhead & Griffin pp. 31-32
