Investigating Cultural Aspects in Indian Organizations
Investigating Cultural Aspects in Indian Organizations

Author: Vijay Pereira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-04-16

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 3319160982

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The purpose of this edited collection is to analyse the cultural aspects of Indian organizations. As the world’s largest and most diverse democracy, Indian society can be best described as an amalgam of multiple cultures, value systems, socio-political and institutional orientations. This book offers a theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of these aspects in Indian organizations. The World Bank predicts that in the near future India will become the world’s second largest economy. The recent high growth rates reported by businesses in the Indian economy needs to be sustainable, especially amidst its high cultural diversity. Whilst there is tremendous interest in understanding the intricacies of Indian culture and a growing literature focusing on topics such as India-specific management and internationalization strategies of Indian firms, the cultural aspects of Indian businesses have been largely ignored. This book aims to fill this gap. It covers various topics in organizational culture and management such as human resource management, cross-cultural communication and coaching, cultural similarity, cultural literacy, multiculturalism, generational cultural values, talent acquisition and knowledge management. It also features case studies from high growth sectors such as the IT and health industries. Presenting contributions from local Indian and international researchers, this book provides a multidimensional perspective that will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners interested in organizational culture and management in India.

Business and Management Practices in South Asia
Business and Management Practices in South Asia

Author: Arijit Sikdar

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9811313997

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This book presents case studies of South Asian companies that have strategic business implications, highlighting the complex interplay of business and social dynamics in South Asia. This region is a wide agglomeration of very different countries that share somewhat common cultures and issues and yet it is torn apart by religion and politics. There is an abundance of local entrepreneurship but a widespread institutional void. The book investigates how local companies survive and thrive in this environment and discusses those companies that have withstood the competitive pressure of MNCs, depicting their management and business practices. In today’s world, where multinationals are so omnipresent that their management and business practices are considered as the de facto recipe for success, there is a need to have an alternative view that challenges the ubiquitousness of multinational management practices. The case studies in this book focus on the business and management practices of local organizations in South Asia and thus provide that alternative viewpoint of how to achieve success in South Asia. Exposing readers to a local perspective on doing business in South Asia, it is a valuable resource for students and practitioners of management.

Performance Based Reward and National Culture
Performance Based Reward and National Culture

Author: Ashutosh Muduli

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Research in the field of human resource management has proved that all Human Resource (HR) tools and techniques cannot be equally applied to each and every organization operating in different cultural contexts. Therefore, whether certain Human resource techniques (e.g. performance based reward) are appropriate for a particular cultural context should be investigated before such techniques are applied in that cultural context. In the current research, the researcher has attempted to study the appropriateness of Performance based reward (PBR) in Indian culture. The Hofstede (1984) four dimensions model of national cultures is adopted to study the characteristics of Indian culture. Extensive literature study is conducted to ascertain the relatedness of culture dimensions with performance based reward (PBR). Agreeing with the past studies, the study found evidence for high power distance, more collectivism, high uncertainty avoidance, and low masculinity culture in India. Detail examination of the unique characteristics of Indian national culture in reference with compensation reveals the non suitability of Performance based reward (PBR) to the national culture. To confirm the result, the researcher conducted an attitude survey of Indian employees towards Performance based reward (PBR). The survey was conceptualized by relating the attitude of employees towards equity based pay and equality based pay. The result of the survey reveals a mismatch of national culture characteristics with the present attitude of Indian employees. This finding invites the possibility of cultural shift in India, which is less convincing and therefore can be attributed to a slow shift of orientation of the society driven by the change in economic conditions imposed by the economic reforms. However, the author cautioned the decision makers not to ignore the fact that most of the studies on Indian culture ends up with such a state of affair which has been getting further complicated with the evidence of the presence of multicultural characteristics within the country itself.

Culture and Organizational Behaviour
Culture and Organizational Behaviour

Author: Jai B. P. Sinha

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009-01-06

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 8178298961

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Culture and Organizational Behaviour is a textbook for management studies that highlights the effect of the confluence of Western and Indian cultural influences. It adheres to the syllabi of the organizational behaviour courses followed in most major universities and management institutes. The book presents basic knowledge of organizational behaviour as developed in the West, adds to these the latest global research findings, and situates them in the Indian cultural perspective. It also highlights the issues that emanate from the interface of the Indian culture and organizational behaviour. Key Features: - Contains updated case studies from Indian organizations - Focuses on current and emerging strategies in organizational structures, leadership, power and politics - Covers topics like balancing work and other responsibilities, power and politics, and conflict and negotiation, which, though extremely crucial to organizational behaviour, have perhaps not got due attention in the existing literature - Presents the relatively unexplored effects of Indian culture on organizational behaviour. Provides a platform where both theoretical and practical issues can be addressed by managers, researchers, students and teachers alike.

Organizations and National Culture
Organizations and National Culture

Author: Monir H. Tayeb

Publisher: Sage Publications (CA)

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Organizations and National Culture presents an analysis and empirical testing of competing perspectives in organizational theory on the influence of social context on organizational structure and organizational behaviour Drawing on a comparative analysis undertaken in England and India, Monir Tayeb explores the impact of culture and other societal factors on organizational structure, management systems and employees' work attitudes and values. The author both investigates similarities and differences in the ways English and Indian companies and employees respond to their social and cultural environments, and relates these to the significant part that technical and other task-related factors play in the process. Tayeb argues that it is the "combined "factors of culture, political economy and contingency which define employees' attitudes to people in positions of power and authority, their ability to cope with ambiguity and uncertainty, and their expectations from a job. In conclusion the author outlines a multi-perspective model in which contributions of cultural contingency and political economic theories are recognized and incorporated. This model offers a more comprehensive and realistic cross-cultural understanding of organizations, providing the means to examine both formal organizational structure and employee behaviour.

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations
Culture, Leadership, and Organizations

Author: Robert J. House

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2004-04-29

Total Pages: 849

ISBN-13: 1452208123

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Culture, Leadership, and Organizations reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program. GLOBE is a long-term program designed to conceptualize, operationalize, test, and validate a cross-level integrated theory of the relationship between culture and societal, organizational, and leadership effectiveness. A team of 160 scholars worked together since 1994 to study societal culture, organizational culture, and attributes of effective leadership in 62 cultures. Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies reports the findings of the first two phases of GLOBE. The book is primarily based on the results of the survey of over 17,000 middle managers in three industries: banking, food processing, and telecommunications, as well as archival measures of country economic prosperity and the physical and psychological well-being of the cultures studied. GLOBE has several distinguishing features. First, it is truly a cross-cultural research program. The constructs were defined, conceptualized, and operationalized by the multicultural team of researchers. Second, the industries were selected through a polling of the country investigators, and the instruments were designed with the full participation of the researchers representing the different cultures. Finally, the data in each country were collected by investigators who were either natives of the cultures studied or had extensive knowledge and experience in that culture. A unique feature of this book is that while it is an edited book and many experts have written the different chapters, unlike other edited books, it is a fully integrated, seamless, and cohesive book covering the many aspects of the theory underpinning the GLOBE.

E-Government Services Design, Adoption, and Evaluation
E-Government Services Design, Adoption, and Evaluation

Author: Weerakkody, Vishanth

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1466624590

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With the widespread knowledge and use of e-government, the intent and evaluation of e-government services continues to focus on meeting the needs and satisfaction of its citizens. E-Government Services Design, Adoption, and Evaluation is a comprehensive collection of research on assessment and implementation of electronic/digital government technologies in organizations. This book aims to supply academics, practitioners and professionals with the understanding of e-government and its applications and impact on organizations around the world.

Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts
Human Work Interaction Design: Usability in Social, Cultural and Organizational Contexts

Author: Dinesh Katre

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3642117627

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We are extremely pleased to present a comprehensive book comprising a collection of research papers which is basically an outcome of the Second IFIP TC 13.6 Working Group conference on Human Work Interaction Design, HWID2009. The conference was held in Pune, India during October 7–8, 2009. It was hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India, and jointly organized with Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Aarhus University, Denmark; and Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. The theme of HWID2009 was Usability in Social, C- tural and Organizational Contexts. The conference was held under the auspices of IFIP TC 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. 1 Technical Committee TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction The committees under IFIP include the Technical Committee TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction within which the work of this volume has been conducted. TC13 on Human–Computer Interaction has as its aim to encourage theoretical and empirical human science research to promote the design and evaluation of human-oriented ICT. Within TC13 there are different working groups concerned with different aspects of human– computer interaction. The flagship event of TC13 is the bi-annual international conference called INTERACT at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high.