Essay 2: Practices of cultural organisation contribute to managing globalisation in the post-bureaucratic era
Essay 2: Practices of cultural organisation contribute to managing globalisation in the post-bureaucratic era
“Organisational Culture is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problem of external adaption and internal integration” (Schein 1992). It enables a new understanding of values and moral elements that comprise a productive work environment, and simultaneously an organizational excellence. This essay aims to exemplify how organisational culture has impacted on globalisation in the post-bureaucratic era and the certain practices that have lead to our 21st century organisational structure. The first paragraphs will outline cultural empathy and how in turn, having the ability to understand others without judgement correlates into the attributes of a good leader, from there it will continue onto talking about globalization as a term that breaks down the economic, cultural, political and technological barriers between countries with the example of Mcdonaldization. The second paragraph will discuss the phenomenon of virtual teams and the impact that language has had on the workplace and in the education system. By looking at the future of culture from two points of view, the first being one dominating culture and the second being a compression of cultures, this essay is able to convey a message of the importance of culture in society and how globalisation correlates with its growth in society.
Cultural empathy is the ability to see the world through another’s eyes, hearing as they may hear and feeling and experiencing their internal world (Chung & Bemak 2002). However in this post bureaucratic era it is easy to get caught up and held back by this phenomenon, through globalisation, with the world becoming a smaller place and the interactions between different cultures becoming an everyday situation, organisations and representatives must retain their cultural identity and
“Organisational Culture is the pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, or developed in learning to cope with its problem of external adaption and internal integration” (Schein 1992). It enables a new understanding of values and moral elements that comprise a productive work environment, and simultaneously an organizational excellence. This essay aims to exemplify how organisational culture has impacted on globalisation in the post-bureaucratic era and the certain practices that have lead to our 21st century organisational structure. The first paragraphs will outline cultural empathy and how in turn, having the ability to understand others without judgement correlates into the attributes of a good leader, from there it will continue onto talking about globalization as a term that breaks down the economic, cultural, political and technological barriers between countries with the example of Mcdonaldization. The second paragraph will discuss the phenomenon of virtual teams and the impact that language has had on the workplace and in the education system. By looking at the future of culture from two points of view, the first being one dominating culture and the second being a compression of cultures, this essay is able to convey a message of the importance of culture in society and how globalisation correlates with its growth in society.
Cultural empathy is the ability to see the world through another’s eyes, hearing as they may hear and feeling and experiencing their internal world (Chung & Bemak 2002). However in this post bureaucratic era it is easy to get caught up and held back by this phenomenon, through globalisation, with the world becoming a smaller place and the interactions between different cultures becoming an everyday situation, organisations and representatives must retain their cultural identity and