Cross- Cultural Differences in Multinationals

Acording to we have seen on the reading by Thorne and Bartholomeu (2002) "The socio-cultural embeddedness of individual´s ethical reasoning in organization” which explain the four components of the influence on culture on individual´s ethical reasoning, today i´m going to explain some of this concepts and the possible reason to understand why this has to studied and who´s this lecture directed to.

The first concept is the Culture and the identification of an ethical dilemma, this sugguest us a cross- cultural difference in the degree of the Hostede´s dimension Individualism/Collectivisim because here starts a divergence of thougts in the dilemma about which interests are more important for the individual, his/her own´s or the interest of an organizatios. This divergence shows us a situation, in a national way for example, that the countries more individualistics tend more to a market self regulation or a government position like "do whatever you want, first your welfare". in the other hand, goverments with a more collectivistic posture, tends to be more tough in its regulation and often, participates in the market controling like giving more importance to the welfare of the nation.
In that way, if you as a multinational wants to stay longer in a country with high individualistic percentage, you shold try to create a close relationship with your employees making that they feel part of a big family  and making that  his/her expectatives goes according to the expectatives of the organization.

A second one but not less important concept is the Culture and ethical action, this model of ethical reasoning recognises that  someone´s ethical behavior is not always consistent with his/her ethical intention to act. Generally this concept is too tight with the dimension of High /low Confucianism  which shows how ethical actions may comply with ethical intentions. The fact  that the confucionism is linked with the respect of the relative emphasis on time, shows us that cultures with high confucianism (East cultures: China´s, Japan´s) are more willing to act with their ethical intentions and not seeing it as a constrains but as a way to keep the harmony  and not "lose face". but, individuals with high confusianism are seems to be more concerned about "saving face" than acting in an ethical way .

This paperwork has the objective of make the people perceive the influence of individual´s ethical reasoning and to highligths that the cultural orientations reflects different effects over several parts of the individual´s ethical reasoning. This research was made for multinational companies which were looking for mechanisms that may ensure a kind of "global compilance" . also to exhibit the importance of the effort that the companies have to do to underestand the ethical reasoning  with the aim of go toward the reach of the most apropriate mechanism to generate compilance to the ethical norms.
!!Is not an easy work!!


sorry my bloggers, but the past month i couldnt post due all the extense work i´ve had in the University. 
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refference:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2620447/The-SocioCultural-Embeddedness-of-Individuals-Ethical-Reasoning-in-Organizations-Crosscultural-Ethics

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