Analysis of cultural influences on management areas in Canada and Germany

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Corporate communication, grade: 1,70, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, course: Intercultural Communication, language: English, abstract: In recent years it became more and more noticeable how companies lay their focus on understanding their employees since they are a decisive contribution to the success of a company. However, with the globalization being omnipresent and influencing a company’s work environment by having employees from all over the world with different cultural backgrounds, it is harder for the companies to reach their focus goal since there are no standardized requirements that are applicable to all employees. Furthermore, this fact allowed the importance of understanding culture to be included in the curriculum of universities. Hofstede’s cultural dimension model is therefore one of the main theories that students learn in their studies and in this paper this model and the four core leadership theroy are used to analyze the impact of culture on leadership in Germany and Canada.