MULTINATIONAL

Multinational Communication

Executive Summary

This paper concentrates on the Australian Multinational organization looking to set up its operations in India. The paper highlights the various issues including political, investment, legal, social, taxation, ethical and other issues. Recommendations are provided to the CEO of the organization in their respective sections. The aim of the paper is to provide information to the Australian multinational organization on the various issues faced by other multinationals in India, which could possibly create problems for the company. The religion and caste factors along with right and the mindset of the people of India are also provided in detail. Multinational Communication

Introduction

The concept of Globalization has allowed various companies throughout the world to outsource their work in other countries. This has initiated the concept of multinational organizations. With the help of numerous technological progresses in the past few years, the people from different cultures and countries are now able to establish communication on a daily basis. However, even with the all the possible advantages, there are still various conflicts in communication which includes the problems of language barriers, time differences, difference in perceptions as well as the geographical distances. These problems become the source of major conflicts in the multinationals, where the employees from one country are trying to communicate the employee of the other country. This creates complications when the clients are promised particular deadlines. The Multinational organizations face various issues including logistical and time zone related challenges. Various theorists urge the multinationals to focus more on the communication across culture with the organization. Thus, it becomes of crucial importance to understand the global and domestic management (Adler, 2002, pp. 16).

Since organizations do not have enough time, energy or resources to fly its representatives to different countries to communicate with their employees, it concentrates on the creation of virtual teams. These teams include people belonging to various cultures who work together. They may never meet face to face, but they establish an effective means of communication. Thus, teamwork as well as collaboration are both allowed with the advancements in technology (Solomon & Schell, 2009, pp. 269). To work in a global virtual team brings in a lot of difficulties as various people from different cultures possess different ideas to enhance collaboration. Thus, the organizations that look to internationalize their operations need to develop an understanding on how to cope up with issues relational to national, regional or local customs due to the changes in cultures (Jones, G. 2010, pp. 10). If not understood properly, the differences in cultures can create a lot of communication issues.

Discussion

Every business is dependent on communication. Communication is considered to be at the heart of every operation of an organization as well as its international relations. It is also known to be a crucial tool for getting the things done and acts as the foundation for cooperation, understanding and action. Communication is also able to transform critical information as well as meet the needs of the ...