UBUNTU

hello, today I am going to show you a point of view which is how cross-cultural manager has to work to get benefits for his organisation or employees based in other cultures or philosophies, today Ubuntu philosophy.

Ubuntu is a humanist philosophy that was born in Africa, basically is an ethic philosophy as well focusing on people’s allegiances and relation with each other; this philosophy produce in people characteristics such as harmony and hospitality also spirit of caring and community, respect and responsiveness with everybody.

The cross-cultural manager’s job is to meet, interact, understand and deal with people from a different culture, all this is just because people came from different places in the world therefore they have their own cultural issues, so the cross-cultural manager have to handle and deal with it insomuch what is good for one culture could not be good for another culture, for example, the Muslims can got married with more than one wife within the marriage and for Catholicism is not good because you have to get married with just one wife, you can get divorced but you cannot have two or more wives at the time.

At the time a cross-cultural manager would like to be aware of the ubuntu philosophy and use this moving forward to reach benefits and organization and employees; he has to analyze how people from ubuntu philosophy interact with each other and what they like and what they dislike, he must see it and look forward to implement the best that they do, just an example could be to improve the caring spirit and community in his organization then achieve a better ambiance of work.
The cross-cultural manager has to be very careful being as he has to take in count that he cannot impose new rules additionally from other culture and maybe the employees do not see as the most appropriate path to improve the ambiance or the performance.

Also the manager has to take care how African people, who promoted the ubuntu philosophy, reach their goals and look for being day by day better people always under the rules that they did before, although is not easy for the cross-cultural manager to mimic this philosophy into a organization perhaps he has to make a good plan to introduce a new philosophy and that his employees listen it and practice it.

At the end, he must to study how they interact and how the behave with each other and with other people that do not follow ubuntu, how the leader interact with them and how he leads under pressure or what he does to be still promoting this philosophy; all that cross cultural manager has to do is to analyze and study and at the end make conclusions about these factors also he has to think how he will use all of this information to get a better organization and also promote a better ambiance of work between his employees always thinking in their walfare.



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