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Swedish management style perceived by Chinese employees

With the economic and technology development, International Corporation amongcountries becomes increasingly popular. All countries become an entire unit, thereforeunderstanding among different cultures is important. Different cultural backgroundleads to different management style. The cultural diversity is needed to cooperateglobally. Chinese management style and Swedish management style has its owncharacteristics. Study the differences between these two different management stylescan offer an opportunity for understanding each other.The purpose of this thesis is to compare and analyze the differences between Chinesemanagement style and Swedish management style. Empirical data is collected fromindividual interviews with five Chinese employees who work in Sweden and underSwedish manager.The result of the study reveals that Swedish management style is people-oriented,empowerment and small hierarchy. Swedish manager achieve their goal by “loose”management while Chinese manager is more in control and focus on relationshipbuilding between manager and employees.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-20840
Date January 2011
CreatorsLI, XIAOHAN
PublisherHögskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, University of Borås/School of Business and IT
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationMagisteruppsats, ; VT2011MF11

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