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A 5 page paper discussing the need for building and maintaining cross-cultural management and leadership in the multinational organization. Globalization of business is firmly entrenched now; it is likely that in several years globalization of management will be as well. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Ecclesiastes, King Solomon wrote that there was nothing new under the sun; everything that is has been before and will be again. Henry Mintzberg (1992) has said much the
same about globalization, that there is nothing new about the concept, only the word. As example, he uses the Singer Sewing Machine Company at the turn of the last
century. Singer had presence in nearly every corner of the world, including some highly remote regions of Africa. "Internationalizing" the sewing machine
was one thing. Standardizing structure, procedures, processes and products to the greatest degree possible regardless of local culture is quite another. These are activities and conditions that todays
international businesses must address in order to achieve the greatest degree of success that they can. Organizational Behavior Some of the overriding issues
of globalization at present are those of transparency, greater corporate governance and overall integrity. Structures and processes need to contribute to these, while also enabling the organization to gain
maximum return on the inputs into it. It is generally accepted that those organizations best able to learn as an organization are those that will have the greatest success.
Organizational Structure In Singers heyday it was not necessary to operate at the greatest level of efficiency that was possible to attain within
the organization (Mintzberg, 1992). Greater efficiency was an admirable goal, but the greater issue was that the company made its products and then sold them, and then repeated the
process. The very definition of efficiency was different in the days in which the only communication possible between company branches in different companies were short, unreliable telephone conversations and
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