Chapter 13: Globalization

Five ways that organizations relate to globalization

• Domestic Organization

• Multicultural Organization

• Multinational Organization

• International Organization

• Global Organization

Domestic Organization

Identifies with a single country and predominant culture

Multicultural Organization

Primarily identifies with one country, but recognizes the need for a culturally diverse workplace.

Multinational Organization

• Identifies with one country primarily, but operates in several countries

  • Ex: Apple and Samsung phones

International Organization

• Identifies with two or more countries with distinct cultural qualities

  • Ex: Toyota cars

Global Organization

• Identifies with the global system rather than countries

  • Ex: Coca-Cola

Know the effects of globalization

• Time and Space Compression

• Global Consciousness/Reflexivity

• Convergence/Divergence

Time & space compression

• Allows global things to be local and vice versa

• What happens around the world doesn’t seem very far away

Global consciousness/reflexivity

• Expands considerations of more areas

• What happens in ‘this’ country affects us

Convergence/Divergence

• We are becoming more similar and more aware of our differences

• Professor Garner went to McDonald’s in Ukraine and was able to order a quarter-pounder with cheese word for word, it wasn’t in a different language

McWorld

Consumer culture that brings people together (but can erase cultural uniqueness)

Jihad

Tribalism that comes when people resent McWorld

How does globalization intersect with gender?

Women are further marginalized in global society (Domestic work + Trafficking)

How might someone resist globalization?

• Reflecting on Colonization

• Overt Resistance (e.g., Occupy Movement)

  • Let’s think about how we can help people in other parts of the world rather than just ourselves

• Building the “Bottom of the Pyramid”

  • Let’s look at places where people needs helps and find ways to lift them up

• Learn about the world!

  • What’s going on in the world around us?

Overt Resistance ~ Resisting Globalization

Think about how we can help people in other parts of the world rather than just ourselves.

Building the “Bottom of the Pyramid” ~ Resisting Globalization

Look at places where people needs helps and find ways to lift them up.

Forms of CSR

• “Greening” Initiatives

• Social Accounting

• CSR Ratings

“Greening” Initiatives

Companies efforts to develop more environmentally friendly products and pledging to avoid causing environmental catastrophes like oil spills.

Social Accounting

When companies use a model called the Triple Bottom Line, which encourages companies to aim for, and measure, the costs and benefits of their activities in the pursuit of not merely economic outcomes, but for social and environmental interests as well

CSR Ratings

Evaluations and recognition by independent civic organizations, the business press, and consulting firms that assess companies on some criteria for ethical behavior.

Green washing

Insincere public relations efforts to make a corporation’s routine operations look virtuous to an inattentive public—as well to its own employees, who tend to identify more strongly and express more satisfaction with “responsible” firms.

Understand Deetz’ ideas about stakeholders’ participation in organizations

• Corporations are political, not just economic and have major consequences for the public

• Stakeholders interests are not seen as limits to the corporation but as part of its existence and goals

  • All groups (employees, customers, etc) should have a voice

Woke washing

Superficial efforts to appear responsible (or woke) on hot-button social issues.