What are the likely effects (If any) of national culture upon organisations.
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Managing Organisations MN2000 What are the likely effects (If any) of national culture upon organisations Introduction "A national culture can be defined as the collective programming of the mind acquired by growing up in a particular country" (Hofstede, 1991)" National culture contains the foundations and key elements of culture but is termed national to stereotype and show the key features of a particular nation. The culture of a national is built up by several components usually consisting of language, political context, social organisation, education, values and attributes, religion, legal context. (Tayeb 1989) Although these factors have usually been considered by organisations within their own cultures the ever increasing impact of national culture among multinational firms and societies themselves has brought about new considerations for organisations within their own cultures as well as multinational organisations within others. As we can see from the quote above by Hofstede he is describing above how national culture can be imbedded...


