Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry
Global managers have become a key element for MNCs to operate successfully because they support headquarters and subsidiary projects responding to global challenges and local demands to accomplish organizational goals. This requires a particular skill set at both levels. Much of the literature argu...
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Global managers have become a key element for MNCs to operate successfully because they support headquarters and subsidiary projects responding to global challenges and local demands to accomplish organizational goals. This requires a particular skill set at both levels. Much of the literature argues that global managers are global leaders who must consider their subordinates' cultural differences to lead, motivate, and make appropriate decisions. However, more research about the global manager's cultural diversity needs to be conducted.
By conducting fifteen semi-structured interviews with managers of different nationalities affiliated with the automotive industry, this research seeks to understand better what characterizes global managers. Our findings show that the manager's cultural diverseness includes international experience, type of experience, native language, spoken languages, working languages, and personal sphere, which are essential characteristics of global managers in addition to their managerial skills and demonstrate the importance of the background of the individuals in understanding the day-to-day functioning of managers. It also shows an ability to rise above the problems associated with national cultures, as if this were a prerequisite for functioning correctly in this role. Finally, these findings enable us to recommend how to help the emergence of effective global managers.
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spelling | doaj.art-3b2f8fbdbb094ba3b1681b7f5e9df6222024-04-06T22:27:26ZengIEECAJournal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research2328-82722328-82802024-04-0111210.15549/jeecar.v11i2.1543Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industryEmil Velinov0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-1196Vincent Montenero1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4177-5844Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja 2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3848-8147Department of Marketing and Management, Skoda Auto University, Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic Department of Business Studies, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Riga, LatviaMasaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic EDHEC Business School, FranceDepartment of International Business, Faculty of International Relations, Prague University of Economics and Business, Global managers have become a key element for MNCs to operate successfully because they support headquarters and subsidiary projects responding to global challenges and local demands to accomplish organizational goals. This requires a particular skill set at both levels. Much of the literature argues that global managers are global leaders who must consider their subordinates' cultural differences to lead, motivate, and make appropriate decisions. However, more research about the global manager's cultural diversity needs to be conducted. By conducting fifteen semi-structured interviews with managers of different nationalities affiliated with the automotive industry, this research seeks to understand better what characterizes global managers. Our findings show that the manager's cultural diverseness includes international experience, type of experience, native language, spoken languages, working languages, and personal sphere, which are essential characteristics of global managers in addition to their managerial skills and demonstrate the importance of the background of the individuals in understanding the day-to-day functioning of managers. It also shows an ability to rise above the problems associated with national cultures, as if this were a prerequisite for functioning correctly in this role. Finally, these findings enable us to recommend how to help the emergence of effective global managers. https://www.ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/1543global managersautomotive companieslocal cultureorganizational culturecultural diversenesGlobal Managers, Automotive Companies, Local Culture, Organizational Culture, Cultural Diverseness, Competencies |
spellingShingle | Emil Velinov Vincent Montenero Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research global managers automotive companies local culture organizational culture cultural diversenes Global Managers, Automotive Companies, Local Culture, Organizational Culture, Cultural Diverseness, Competencies |
title | Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry |
title_full | Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry |
title_fullStr | Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry |
title_short | Cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers: Evidence from the automotive industry |
title_sort | cultural diverseness as a shaper of global managers evidence from the automotive industry |
topic | global managers automotive companies local culture organizational culture cultural diversenes Global Managers, Automotive Companies, Local Culture, Organizational Culture, Cultural Diverseness, Competencies |
url | https://www.ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/1543 |
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