Cultural Differences In Business Expansion: Advice For Huawei On Poland And South Africa

CULTURAL PROFILE

Description 

China

The business culture of China is very much influence with the heritage culture of the country. The company follow some set of etiquettes when they get involved in the deal. The business culture of the country is strongly influenced by the Confucianism which majorly focuses on respect related to the authority, education and age. While meeting the Chinese people maintain the politeness with the other parties (Doing business in China, 2018).

The deal gets close when the company will be able to maintain a strong relationship with the other party. The culture of the company shows the need for the maintaining composure at the time of meetings. Chinese extend the dealing to get the negotiations in decision making.

Poland

Poland is one of the countries that maintain a diverse business culture. The business etiquettes of Poland include handshake with the eye contact and greetings depending on the situation. Poland likes to call by the prefix pan for acknowledging the males or Pani for females. The meeting includes the parties and social gatherings in which they introduce the women first and then to the men (Kwintessential, 2018).

The culture of business in Poland said that they judge the personal virtues and they believe that honesty is valued in communication. They maintain the formality in their meetings which help them to crack the same.

South Africa

In South Africa, the business meetings start with the participants and exchange of the business cards. The negotiations of the business involve forming of stable personal relationship because they want to know and trust the person with whom they are going to deal. The responsibility related to decision making is linked with the hierarchy of the business (Kwintessential, 2018).

This has been found that regardless of their cultural background, generally most of the South Africans clearly prefer to communicate face to face encounter instead of telephone or email.

CULTURAL DIMENSION DESCRIPTION

The theory of Hofstede’s culture dimension includes communication through cross-culture which shows the effective value related to the social business operations (Yoo, Donthu and Lenartowicz, 2011.

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

POWER DISTANCE;

Power distance deals with the truth that shows individual exist in the societies are not equivalent.

CHINA/POLAND

Similarities:

– The people accept the hierarchical order in which the follow the decision with 68 scores. In the china 80 score is maintained inequalities among the people are accepted.

Differences:

– The major difference that is available is China include more formal authority. On the other hand, there is less formality in Poland.

UNCERTAINTY AVOIDANCE

The uncertainty avoidance dimension theory shows that society deals with information about the future that is uncertain.

 Similarities:

-Similarities of China and Poland is to maintain the history of culture in business (Asialink business, 2018).

Poland

-Poland and China show the individualism and collectivism society respectively with a score of 60 and 20 (Hofstede’s Insight, 2018b).

INDIVIDUALISM/COLLECTIVISM

The dimension of the theory measures the degree which shows the collectivism and individualism that is effectively maintained by society.

MASCULINITY/FEMINITY

The dimension shows this theory which includes masculinity and feminity that makes the people motivate which include need best or liking the way you perform.  

Similarities:

– China and Poland maintain the similarity of the masculine society with a score of 66 and 64. The similarity that there are people who work lives the manager in order to expect to decisive and assertive.

Differences:

-In China, there is the presence of a masculine society which shows the success and orientation of the people who sacrifice their family and leisure priority that are linked with the work. Contrasting this, Poland is linked with the society that majorly focuses on the competition, equity and performance with the conflicts (Hofstede’s Insight, 2018a).

LONG/SHORT TERM ORIENTATION

The dimension of long and short-term orientation reflects the light on the society customs to effectively maintain the links with past while managing the deal with the issues that might be faced by the society in present and future.

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