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A 10 page paper discussing cultural differences in organizational behavior, around the world. The face of business has changed dramatically in only the past generation, and the past decade has seen heightened competition to levels that previously were not thought to be possible. Possible or not, it exists and now is expected only to continue. Globalization of business is firmly entrenched now; it is likely that in several years globalization of management will be as well. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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File: CC6_KSintlBizOrgBeh.rtf
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of 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
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