The final project for this course is a written International merger Report and a Summary PowerPoint. Your company wants you to research a possible merger in a foreign country. Analyze the relationship between cultural systems and business practices. The paper should emphasis on comparing and contrasting between the two cultures, host country and home country.
Make sure to write a minimum 10 pages double-spaced paper following APA style.
Here is a list of what i need to have in the paper and the structure of the final paper.
Japan vs Germany
1. Economic System: Germany Vs Japan
2. Political System: Germany vs Japan
3. Work Ethics: Germany vs Japan
a. Time orientation—Punctuality
b. Place Orientation—Personal space –too close/Distant
c. Work ethics—Corruption
4. Cultural Values: For following cultural values you would need to go to the following link:
type the two countries in the research box, it will give you the result
1. Power Distance: it is defined as the extent to which the members of a society accept that power in institutions and organization is distributed unequally.
2. Uncertainty Avoidance: Has to do with the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity, leading them to support beliefs that promise certainty and to maintain institutions that protect conformity.
3. Individualism versus Collectivism: Individualism stands for preference for a loosely knit social framework in which individuals are supposed to take care of themselves and their immediate families only, as opposed to collectivism, which stands for a preference for a tightly knit social framework in which individuals can expect their relatives, clan, or other in-group to look after them, in exchange for unquestioning loyalty;
4. Masculinity versus Femininity: Masculinity stands for a society in which social gender roles are clearly distinct men are supposed to be assertive, tough, and focused on material success; women are supposed to be more modest, tender, and concerned with the quality of life. related to the division of emotional roles between women and men;
5. Long Term versus Short term Orientation: related to the choice of focus for people’s efforts: the future or the present and past.
6. Indulgence versus Restraint: related to the gratification versus control of basic human desires related to enjoying life.
5. Communication: hand gesture/ facial expression/ Nodding/ verbal/non-verbal cues/ show off/ Display or mask negative emotion?
6. Legal System: Resolving of issues? Cross-cultural conflict resolution
