Organizational Behavior Case This Case Is Interesting Case Study

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Organizational Behavior Case

This case is interesting because it portrays the cultural variances that an employee might find in different cultures from a first person perspective. First, an American employee shares his perspective about his experience working on a project in Germany. He finds that the employees are extraordinarily methodological during the planning phase of the project; then rather autonomous throughout the duration of the project. In his experience American firms generally set a goals and performance targets earlier in the project and do not require that the entire team comes to a consensus about the underlying ideologies that are driving the project while also expecting that the team leader takes a more authoritarian type approach. From the German perspective, they feel as if they can devote all of the team's resources and energies in the planning phase then they can save a bunch of time down the road because all the employees are already on the same page. Since they all understand the entirety of the project on a deeper level than the American culture would generally allow for, they believe that this facilitates an approach that improves quality and allows the team to work autonomously on the tasks.

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