In: Operations Management
What does 'culture' mean to you, and what role does it play in a global organizational setting in various international organizations?
We can describe a customer as being a set of values, understanding, thinking, and outlook that is influenced by a group's set of beliefs which is in turn influenced by the presence of factor such as differences in demographics, ideologies etc.
Culture plays an important role in an individual’s understanding of the environment around them. They relate to all the possible interactions, conditions influences as well as thinking, factors of morality etc. comparing them with their ingrained sense of the values provided by the culture in order to allow them to make the understanding process of the scenario possible.
We need to be able to understand how it is a business functions in the presence of diversity especially based around the cultural differences For businesses operating at a global capacity, it becomes relevant to be able to cater to the needs of their customers, their employees as well as a number of other factors which act as the variable that they need to solve in order to accomplish the goal of their business processes. We can say that in order to equate the values as required, we need to be able to maintain a deep understanding of the cultural aspects of individuals, especially for managers that need to manage individuals that follow different cultural values for them to be able to come together in order to allow the company the best possible implementation of their diversity of thinking, skill pool as well as outlook and perspectives in order to provide the company with the required level of innovation to best deal with any given situation.