Organizational Structure and Cross Cultural Management

1. Haryo M.
Vindy Triany
William Eric Manongga

2.  The emerging of multicultural workforce

3.  Project Copernicus comprised of 130 individuals from about 20
different nationalities
 Each nationality has different culture
 Language Communications
 Diversity characteristic of the managers

4.  The team was not hierarchically ordered, and all members
were on an equal footing
 The driver of task completion was mainly peer group pressure.

5.  Mechanistic structure
 Organic structure
 Mix of mechanistic and organic structure
 Continuously evolving and altering in response cultural
background of members

6.  Knowledge for multicultural context
 Participation of every employee
 Improvisation
 Open minded
 Adaptation

7.  Mix of mechanistic and organic structure

8.  Know the culture of the employees before implementing an
organization structure
 Do improvisation to the organization structure when needed
 Leader diligent regular visits to other branches