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Intercultural Management in a Selected Company
Badinová, Eszter ; Gábová, Kateřina (referee) ; Konečný, Štěpán (advisor)
Tato diplomová práce analyzuje interkulturní management a komunikaci v české společnosti působící na mezinárodní úrovni. Práce používá dotazníkové šetření pro získání lepšího vhledu do cross-kulturní komunikace mezi týmy a členy týmu ve firmě. Obsahuje také návrhy na základě vyhodnocených údajů, které mají zlepšit výkonnost podniku tím, že pomáhají zaměstnancům překonat kulturní rozdíly.
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The importance of knowledge of cross-cultural differences in managing intercultural teams
Pinterová, Natália
The aim and focus of the bachelor's thesis are different managers’ perspectives on solving the problems of cultural differences in the diverse teams of an international XY company. The thesis' major goal is to identify important factors and key aspects of cultural differences and management work in a diverse environment for managers. The partial goal is the identification of the obstacles and barriers managers need to face and overcome in a multicultural environment. The goals are achieved using qualitative research in the form of individual online interviews with co-owners, managers, and employees of a selected company. The qualitative research method of qualitative interviews (primary data) was used to obtain data for this bachelor thesis. The analysis for finding the main problems and differences in intercultural teams from the interviews was done in the MAXQDA program. In this thesis, are identify the necessity of communication and cooperation among people of different cultures as the most important factors for managing intercultural teams. Key aspects for manager are to learn, adapt, understand, control different communication styles, put cooperation ahead of competition; and improve language skills. The manager gets in touch the most frequently with language obstacles and barriers, which cause misunderstandings due to different views. The recommendations are to improve knowledge of language and cultural differences (a list of cultural differences is attached in the appendix), improve effective communication in teams, learn and try to understand, adapt rather than judge, and prioritize cooperation over competition. Intercultural teams are more effective and creative because people have various ways of solving problems and bring new solutions.
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Intercultural diversity in an organization
Cherednichenko, Kristina
Cherednichenko, K. Intercultural diversity in an organization. Bachelor thesis. Brno: Mendel University in Brno, 2023. The Bachelor thesis deals with intercultural diversity in an organization. The work is aimed at solving the problem of managing the interculturally diverse groups of AT&T employees. The course is structured around research questions about the ways AT&T has for managing foreign workers. The objectives of the thesis are to improve interaction and communication in the workplace in a multicultural environment and to develop the potential of these teams. The bachelor thesis uses Hofstede's dimensions, through which the main results of the work are identified. This is followed by a review of the collected results, a comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, and then recommendations for improving the management of the company.
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Interkulturní komunikace pracovníků v cestovním ruchu
Marková, Tereza
Marková, T. Intercultural communication of employees in tourism. Bachelor thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2022. The bachelor thesis deal with the intercultural communication of workers in a selected area of tourism. The aim of the thesis is to find out the ways of intercultural communication of workers in spa facilities with foreign business partners and to create proposals for the elimination of problem areas. The thesis is divided into several parts. The theoretical part describes the issues of intercultural man-agement, Hofstede’s dimensions, and culture. The current situation in spa tourism will also be discussed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodological part focuses on the description of research and the form of data collection. In the practical part, information on business communication of selected countries will be written, including an evaluation of the obtained interviews. The final part of the work will summarize the findings and quantify the economic proposals.
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Intercultural differences in management in childcare facilities
Demyan, Nikolay ; Šafránková, Jana Marie (advisor) ; Kursch, Martin (referee)
The thesis focuses on the analysis of the management of selected organizations providing care for young children in terms of intercultural differences in the management style and principles of their managers from the majority society. The analysis is based primarily on the work of Geert Hofstede and Robert House, who revealed the sociological phenomenon of cultural dimensions. The theoretical part of the thesis is devoted to an analysis of the current legislative framework for the provision of early childhood education in Czech Republic and the position and role of the school or non-profit organization director as a manager. Special attention is paid to the concept of intercultural management as a specific area of people management and the basic theories of cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede and Robert House are discussed, including the framing of the whole situation in the context of the Czech social and cultural environment. The practical part is focused on research of selected organizations providing care for young children. Due to the limited number of childcare facilities in the Czech Republic with a multicultural workforce, a qualitative research method, namely case study analysis using semi-structured interviews with managers of childcare organizations, was chosen to identify...
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Intercultural competencies and their development
Popelková, Lucie ; Kocianová, Renata (advisor) ; Kopecký, Martin (referee)
In my diploma thesis I deal with intercultural competencies, which are a relatively new phenomenon. It started to evolve on the grounds of the influence of globalization and internacionalization. I have made an overview of the changing life of organizations, especially in the area of Human Resource Management, which grows into international extent. I have considered the reasons leading to the growth of the (significant) needs of interculturally educated employees. Recent development of social, political and economical reality indicate the fact, that this need will be more and more urgent in the future. Because of the reducing importance of borders between nations and among economics the contact among members of different cultures in personal and work life is still more frequent and intensive. In the order to be efficient in cooperation with individuals from different cultural environment it is necessary to understand each other, capture the way of partner's thinking and behavior, forbearance and knowledge of cultural specifics. Training focused on development of intercultural competencies is thus an inevitable requirement of employee's preparation to long-term residence abroad and its completion is the precondition of smooth course of adaptation in a foreign country. Therefore, I pay attention to the...
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Odporučenie pre rozvoj diverzného managementu v medzinárodnej IT spoločnosti
Fulová, Petra
Bachelor thesis is focused on diversity management with an emphasis on intercultural management. Furthermore, it is focused on the analysis of the current state of the diversity management in a particular company and developing suggestions to improve it. It deals with the perception of intercultural management of foreign workers from different countries. Data were obtained from qualitative interviews with employees of the company. The results arising from the interviews were further used for suggested recommendations.
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Diversity management ve výzkumném centru CEITEC
Michlíčková, Vlasta
This thesis deals with diversity management in the scientific research centre CEITEC. Diversity management deals with diversity in the workplace, especially gender, age, and intercultural. The aim of the thesis is to propose suitable strate-gies, suggestions and recommendations for improvement and development of diversity management, so that each employee has the opportunity to fully exploit their potential. The first part deals with the definition of important concepts relat-ed to diversity management and the reasons for its implementation. The next part is devoted to the processing of qualitative and quantitative research, on the basis of which are set recommendations, proposals and budget of the improvements and their benefits.
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Management diverzitních týmů v mezinárodní společnosti
Jágrová, Kateřina
This diploma thesis deals with diversity management in international company and in companies in financial field, and also deals with productivity and effectiveness of employees and work teams. The main goal of the thesis is to make suggestions and recommendations to change or improve access to diversity management in compa-nies. Recommendations are about age, gender and intercultural management and also about work-life balance. Important goal is also discover the influence of age and gender to productivity of employees and effectiveness of work teams. Research is divided into two parts. In the first section is quantitative questionnaire - there are applied exact methods (statistical analysis). The second part is qualitative research – there are applied methods of semistructured interviews (team leaders, experts of productivity, HR managers and also leaders). The last part of the thesis contains suggestions and recommendations for better using diversity management and for maximization of team productivity.
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Diversity management vo vybranej medzinárodnej spoločnosti
Janečková, Katarína
Janečková, K. Diversity management in selected international company. Bachelor thesis. Brno: Mendel University, 2019. This bachelor thesis deals with application of diversity management in selected international company and evaluation of its current situation. The main aim of the thesis is creation of recommendations for improvement in the field of management of diverse working teams. The recommendations are linked to age, gender and diversity management. The thesis is divided into two parts. Theoretical part defines the terms of age, gender and intercultural management, explains the methods of their application and the reason they are needed to be implicated into company’s management. Moreover, it describes demographic development and the situation in Czech and Slovak republic. Practical part involves qualitative research and analysis of environment. The last part describes the suggestions for improvement, their economical evaluation and benefits resulting from their application.
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