National Culture Vs Corporate Culture

Corporate - National Culture Vs Corporate Culture

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Part A - normal

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Why people behave in a similar way? Do they have shared beliefs and values? Most likely, our minds shape our actions and once people talk the same language and do things similarly, they formed a culture. Distinct cultures can be seen in countries, clubs and communities.

We grow up with our national culture values such as certainty vs. Uncertainty, risk-taking vs. Risk-averse and good vs. Evil, and held them deeply and turn gently over time. Geert Hofstede, a Dutch group psychologist, has identified six dimensions of national culture: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, masculinity, long-term orientation and indulgence vs. Restraint. The dimension scores vary over countries. Power distance is high in Latin, Asian and African countries and low in Germanic, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon nations. Latin and Germanic countries and Japan are high in uncertainty avoidance; Chinese, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon countries are more uncertainty accepting.

On the other hand, corporate culture is comprised of dress code, systems and 'culture carriers' like its founder, Ceo and managers. Companies' practices are developed and learned from the job to achieve their mission and targets. Besides, individuals can move from business to company. Thus they are more superficial and adaptable than those national culture core values. According to Hofstede, national cultures belong to anthropology; organizational cultures to sociology. Within a large company, assorted departments can even exhibit Distinct cultures due to working with the Distinct individuals.

Can corporate culture weaken national culture? Conflicts will easily arise especially in multi-national corporations (Mnc) due to the cultural differences in the middle of local national culture and imported corporate culture. Using a Mnc in Middle East as example, the local laborer will not stay up late to complete his work if he has a house duty and this does not mean he is an irresponsible employee. However, a Western administrative might take it as though he does not care for his job and disagreements might occur. An Insead professor, André Laurent, has discovered that cultural differences were significantly greater among managers from Distinct nations working within the same Mnc than among managers working for clubs in their own native country. In a typical Mnc, Germans seemingly became more German, Americans more American, Swedes more Swedish, and so on. The explanation is not very understandable, then it might advise that employees are not adapting into a shared corporate culture if it is not align to their national cultures. There is also a normal trend that shows workers who are not fit into the corporate culture will be either not get employed in the first place or resign within a few years.

Corporate culture is not defined in a singular day and it evolves and becomes more illustrated as time goes by. Roughly all thriving businesses had developed a strong and safe bet culture, not just based on management and administration, but leadership and empowerment. For example, Toyota introduced their "Toyota Way" and their clear devotion to teamwork and continuous revision ("Kaizen") has given them a competing advantage and attracted many clubs to learn from them. With strong and clear corporate culture, clubs can enjoy many benefits such as similar standards can be maintained, increased loyalty, higher motivation & productivity and increased management control.

How leaders originate corporate culture? At the starting of business, the founder(s) play an leading role to set the standards from their beliefs, values and assumptions. However, once they start to bring in new members into the management team, more learning experiences are shared and new beliefs, values and assumptions will be passed on. As more and more people joined the company, there is a greater need for the Ceo to originate a shared vision, a code of custom and the same level of risk taking. Unfortunately, culture does not survive if the main 'culture carriers' leave or the main bulk of members leave. With a strong value on individualism in U.S., the clubs take on similar value. Thus a corporate culture might reflect the characteristics of its founder(s) like Jack Welsh in Ge and Steve Jobs in Apple. Interestingly, there are also clubs with long history that are able to continue its own unique culture, no matter who is/are in the top management. Ibm is an example.

Part B - definite (BreadTalk)

BreadTalk was established in 2000 and is a designer sweet store, most supreme for its cream-filled buns topped with pork floss, named Flosss. By the 3rd year, BreadTalk Group tiny was listed on the Sgx. It is one of the Singapore's leading F&B brand well known for being creative, innovative, trendsetting and for its superior ability products. Presently, BreadTalk has reached out to 12 countries with more than 300 bakery outlets (including franchises), 33 food courts and 8 restaurants, supported by over 4,000 staff. Its brands comprise BreadTalk, Toast Box, Food Republic, Din Tai Fung and The center Kitchen.

BreadTalk's foresight is to be an international, trend-setting, lifestyle brand and its mission is lead a new lifestyle culture with new, innovative changes and creative differentiation to craft products with passion and vibrancy. They believe in providing Qsc (Quality, Service, and Cleanliness) for their customers. They treat training as an leading aspect for their company. All new trainees are required to experience training first at their BreadTalk outlets learning how to pack bread, serve customers, etc. Periodically, the training and improvement agency also sends their Hq staff for expert improvement courses. They also believe strongly in team bonding and before any new BreadTalk outlet opens, all the outlet staff will go to the beach or a day of absorbing and team-building activities. With a closer bonding and understanding, their staff will be able to work well together.

In addition, BreadTalk's Chairman, Dr George Quek, encourages all his staff to be creative and all the time think out-of-the-box. In order for his business to advance successfully, getting a trustworthy team of employees and partners is vital. He empowers his managers to make decisions on their own. "You can't just send man overseas without empowering them. The market in China, for example, is so much bigger than Singapore's, so the employer that we send there has to be empowered to deal with that kind of scale." His inexpressive to BreadTalk's success is to be diligent.

In my opinion, our Singapore culture (e.g. High emphasis on education, collectivism and diligent) does play a part in shaping the corporate culture of BreadTalk, especially by the local employees. BreadTalk is also clearly shaped by its founder, Dr. Quek. The main difficulty is to make its foreign employees comfortable working in Singapore. I believe BreadTalk culture will not be affected greatly by other Asian countries e.g. China, India, and Vietnam. However, in today's competing market, there are safe bet patterns and traits that clubs have to cultivate in order to be thriving such as creativity, innovation, differentiation, training, team construction and autonomy.

In 2008, BreadTalk had specially created a bun, named as "Peace Panda" and all the proceeds from the sales of this bun had gone to aid the recovery of Sichuan earthquake. Together with the Red Cross, they had raised S,000 in just 1 week. This corporate group accountability (Csr) act demonstrated their innovative way to use their goods as a tool to raise funds by choosing the national animal of China and giving a name, starting 'P' as well. Although Csr does not easily thought about to be part of its corporate culture, it gives its brand free media coverage and might leave a deep impression into the heart of its customers as it shows humanity and compassion. It is like a form of differentiation from other F&B companies. When people are supporting the cause by buying its "Peace Panda", they will buy other breads as well. It helped to boost its sales too.

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