Multinational corporations corporate culture

The Multinational Corporations Cultural Challenges, the Legal/ Regulatory Framework and the Medico-commercial Environment... 

Societal culture describes those attributes of culture pervading a population or community inhabiting a given geographical area. Individuals from the same societal culture share common values. A multinational corporation has to deal with many societal cultures, even, sometimes, within a single nation. Differences in societal culture will result in different responses to key issues. Table 50.1 indicates a... 

The principal concern of the multinational corporation is the extent to which corporate culture conflicts or fits in with the societal and medical culture(s) in each country where the company operates. Corporate culture is evidenced by shared values about the conduct of business, and may be strong or weak. 

Complexities can also arise when a multinational pharmaceutical company engages the services of another organization, such as a multinational contract research organization (CRO), with potentially different corporate cultures. In each country where the two multinationals collaborate, there is a need to reconcile their corporate cultures, while simultaneously being responsive to local societal and medical cultural considerations. 

Where is capitalism, the proletarian classes, the battle of the sexes, the struggle for the emancipation of the races. Western culture, the strategies of wicked multinational corporations, the military establishment, the devious interests of professional lobbies, the race for prestige and rewards among scientists All these elements are social and... 

Culture has been defined as the totality of socially transmitted behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given time (Webster s Dictionary, 1984). With respect to the multinational pharmaceutical corporation, culture can be thought of at three levels ... 

The most successful corporate culture can foster leadership that is responsive to potential conflict arising in multinational operations from cultural diversity. Organizations with such a culture express a clear vision that is understood and supported internationally. Such organizations benefit from... 

Demel (1991) and Demel and Meshkati (1989) conducted an extensive field study to explore how the performance of U.S.-owned manufacturing plants in other countries is affected by both the national culture of the host country and the organizational culture of the subsidiary plant. A manufacturing plant division of a large American multinational corporation was examined in three countries Puerto Rico, the United States, and Mexico. Hofstede s (1980a) Values Survey Module for national culture and Reynolds s (1986) Survey of Organizational Culture were administered. Performance measures (i.e., production, safety, and quahty) were collected through the use of secondary research. 

Therefore, it can be suggested that the decision concerning which management system or method to promote should be based on specific human, cultural, social, and deeply rooted local behavior patterns. It is critical for multinational corporations operating in different cultures from their own to ensure and enhance cultural compatibility for the success of their operations. As a consequence, it... 

Demel, G. (1991), Influences of Culture on the Performance of Memufacturing Plants of American Multinational Corporations in Other Countries A Macroergonomics Antilysis, Master s Thesis, Institute of Safety and Systems Management, University of Southern Ctilifomia, Los Angeles. 

The manufacture of cosmetics is a multibillion dollar global industry, currently dominated by a relatively small number of multinational corporations in the USA, Europe (mainly in Germany, France, Italy and UK) and Japan. This is an industry sector that has not thus far experienced the level of competition from emerging economies, such China and India, which has led to the substantial transfer of the manufacture and application of traditional textile dyes and pigments to those parts of the world. This feature may be attributed, to a certain extent, to the cultural association of products branded as cosmetics with the fashion and design industry as led by Europe and the USA, often linked with specific Western brand names. 

Large multinational corporations have to work hard to achieve a common corporate culture which over-rides national characteristics. As part of that process, it is important to inculcate the correct challenging behaviors required for safety management. 

The field of communication, and therefore effective application of multilingualism principles within OHS management systems and risk management systems, is part of the corporate culture, and as such, of the safety culture of multinational corporations performing in various countries in the world. This happens with respect to some external conditions, including the following ... 

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