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This 8-page paper examines issues likely to be faced by global managers in the 21st century. This paper is written from an Asian perspective, and covers topics such as changes in workforce culture and technology. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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on time and in a quality manner. But in this day and age, as we move more into the global marketplace, the manager is becoming more global as well.
Being global involves more than simply knowing a foreign language or knowing how to travel for long periods of time on an
airplane. Many critical issues and assumptions face todays global managers - the least of those issues being understanding different cultures and how they impact the companys workforce, corporate culture and
way of performing job duties. The goal of this paper is to examine some of the issues that might face the global
manager, particularly the Asian global manager. While the list is not inclusive by far, it will, at least, provide an idea of what will face the global manager during the
21st century. Changing Workforce Dynamics According to a biennial survey of Asian managers conducted in 1999 by the Far Eastern Review, it
was found that 88 percent of those managers surveyed were male, and 12 percent were female (Anonymous, 1999). For the most part, upper management in Asia has always been male-dominated.
But the survey also demonstrated that women were starting to infiltrate the ranks of upper management (Anonymous, 1999). In similar biennial surveys conducted by the publication, females in management made
up 8 percent of those surveyed in 1995, and 9.4 percent of those surveyed in 1997 (Anonymous, 1999). The survey also revealed
that the most progressive Asian societies were Thailand (where 24 percent of managers were women) and Hong Kong (23 percent) (Anonymous, 1999). Perhaps unsurprisingly, South Korea, with its more patriarchal
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