COM 315 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Sexual Orientation, Affirmative Action, Stereotype
21 Nov 2018
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One can be a successful manager when all four classes of qualities are combined. Scholars: learned and contemplate vision and ethics. Farmers: work the land and can provide for basic human needs. Artisans: creative and strive for beauty and excellence. Merchants: have strong ambition and a drive to succeed and to accumulate wealth. Successful management of today"s increasingly diverse workforce is among the most important global challenges faced by corporate leaders, human resource managers, and management consultants (p. 2) The seminal typology offered is helpful as a general framework for understanding unique corporate cultures relevant to global workforce diversity (p. 2) Headquarters in one country and operations in one or more other countries. This strategy is based primarily on transferring and adapting the parent company"s knowledge or expertise to foreign markets while retaining considerable influence and control. The central corporate office has the dominant decision-making power but each national or regional operation has some autonomy in business decisions.
