A revision on Comparative and Global Management

The best approach to comparative management and global management learning is an alert, open and always a cautious one. It is important to identify both the potential merits of management practices found in other countries and the ways cultural variables may affect their success or failure when applied elsewhere. 

We can and should be looking for new ideas to stimulate change and innovation. But we should hesitate to accept any practice, no matter how well it appears to work somewhere else, as a universal prescription to action. 

Indeed, the goal of comparative management studies is not to provide definitive answers but to help develop creative and critical thinking about the way managers around the world do things, and about whether they can and should be doing them better.

There is no one size fits all model of Management and Leadership. It has more to do with finding the right balance of our values shaped by our external environment and trying to apply the same in a constantly changing world .

More akin to chasing our tail. Or changing the goal post. Just when we think we have got it right then one or more of those many variables change compelling us to re-calibrate and readjust in that shifting vicious cycle.

It is more the degree rather then achieving the perfect score of that elusive perfect target.

Bibliography

Schermerhorn et al. (2011). Management Foundations and Applications. Milton QLD: John Wiley & Sons.