Global Operations Management

Abstract

This tells about the issues of global expansion, and it helps you to understand the importance of cultural knowledge during an expansion. This is a look at the different factors that could go wrong during a company's global expansion. This helps you to evaluate factors and avoid the pitfalls that can come.

Global Operations Management

Introduction

There are companies that embrace and envision change. The expansion into other companies is a definite change that a lot of companies have embraced. It would be nice to say all change comes without a hitch, but this is not true. Expansion comes with good, but it also comes with issues. There are many challenges globally.

What Are Some of the Issues the Host Foreign Country Could Face As A Result of the Expansion?

Introducing expansion into another country has many issues to discuss and look into by the host company. The element that is influencing a countries usage of technologies is external and internal factors. External factors are the willingness of the retailers to conduct business globally. Internal factors consist of the growth rate provided by the host country, and it is done by the obtainable human and physical resources.

It is important to have the necessary communication set up. This is a vital element. It is possible not to have sufficient intercontinental links. It is possible to not have reliable equipment, and it could be almost unobtainable to obtain and sustain electrical power. Computers could be antiquated or inadequate, and it is possible not to have any computers. Then, there is the possibility to have slow or weak signals, or the progress to load or upload could be slow. There could be a desired upgrade in a lot of the countries where there is desired expansion.

One of the question to be asked is, are the skills there to set up and operate an international company? The culture where the expansion will take place plays an important role in the worker's skills. The host country carries a lot of the weight of success, if they provide the appropriate work ethics, policies and attitudes, and they show appropriate attitudes for achievement. Specialized knowledge is not prevalent in certain countries, so there is a struggle to gain the capable workers.

Needless to say, some countries are live in poverty. The shape of the economy today reigns true for a lot more. There is a lower income possibility, so the performance of a business in these countries could be hard to sustain. No matter the circumstance, there are definite issues to overcome.

What Cultural Barriers and Diversity Issues Are Commonly Encountered By International/Multinational (MNC) and Global Organizations?

When business is done internationally,