Global enviornment | Management homework help

In your blog, you should address the following two sections: 

(1) Section 1: list the key ideas you have extracted from the prescribed e-learning activity. 

(2) Section 2: apply those ideas to your own experience, to an organisation you know and to the topic(s) of this subject.

Visit the following URLs, and use ‘Questions to consider’ to guide your thinking.

Activity 1: Thomas Friedman on Globalisation; 3 Eras of Globalisation; World is flat

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp4znWHvsjU

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2BguxRSyY

Questions to consider:

1.  What would be some of the key drawbacks or risks of living in the flat world of Globalisation 3.0 as Friedman describes it?

2.  Do you agree with Friedman’s iron rule of the flat world? Explain.

3.  Is the level of globalisation uniform across the world? Explain.

Activity 2: Pankaj Ghemawat on Globalisation

URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/pankaj_ghemawat_actually_the_world_isn_t_flat.html

Questions to consider:

1.   Has your view on globalisation changed after listening to Professor Ghemawat? Explain.

2.  Consider where you have seen the fears that people have about globalisation. Do you think these fears may subside with some data points that may suggest otherwise?

Activity 3: Online tool to explore different countries’ 5 dimensions by Hofstede

URL: http://geert-hofstede.com/countries.html

Questions to consider:

1. How does the Australian culture compare to other world cultures (eg. Your home country or other countries that you have visited)?

2. Do you agree with the survey results for the Australian culture? Why or why not?

Activity 4: ‘The myth of national culture’ – Counter argument to Hofstede’s work by Professor Brendan McSweeney at Royal Holloway, University of London

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_l84Dj2eXY

Questions to consider:

1. Do you agree with Professor McSweeney’s view on national cultures? Why or why not? After viewing the survey result done by Hofstede on your home country, who do you think offers a more compelling argument on national cultures? Can a single culture be used to determine the actions of entire population?

Activity 5: ‘Riding the waves of culture’ – Talk given by Fons Trompenaars at TEDxAmsterdam

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmyfjKjcbm0

Questions to consider:

1. Consider your experience with cultural conflict or culture shock. What were the different viewpoints that you had to reconcile? And how did you overcome the differences?

2. What would be the benefits of connecting different viewpoints as Trompenaar suggests?

Activity 6: ‘Building a cross-cultural web design for a wider audience’ (Christian Arno in Design on 22nd Jun 2010) 

URL: http://www.onextrapixel.com/2010/06/22/building-a-cross-cultural-web-design-for-a-wider-audience/

Questions to consider:

1. Can the concept of High and Low Context cultures be applied to other areas of business? – marketing and advertising, PR, customer and supplier relationship management, etc.