American Business Culture Business Across Cultures
American Business Culture for obvious reasons is oriented for operation in multinational contexts. It is equally true that individual companies, such as IBM, Microsoft or Coca-Cola, may have their own identifiable cultures, based very much on ABC, which leave their mark on their employees. For many business people, therefore, local cultures will probably become less and less dominant as common international business behavior develops worldwide. So, while it may be useful to expect that a businessman from Japan will behave like other Japanese businessmen, he might very well have worked in an American company, or lived in the United States, and assumed some characteristics of business people from that country. Traditionally communication is understood as the main tool of a western business culture for carrying out the following management activities: - leadership in order to inspire and motivate colleagues and subordinates; กค team building in order to harness the synergies of individuals brought together from different disciplines and with different specialisations - delegation which aims to share responsibility, empower subordinates and free up superiors.