3. MEMBERS
INDEX NO.
ARMOH KWAW EHOMA ISAAC 9110619
ANSAH FERKA EMMANUEL 9113019
TWUMASI SOPHIA 9112119
YEBOAH ACHEAMPONG
PRISCILLA
9112219
ANDOH-MENSAH PRINCE KWEKU 9110419
4. CONTENT
• History of Brazil
• Religion of Brazil
• Geopolitics of Brazil
• Culture of Brazil
• How the history, Religion, Geopolitics and Culture of Brazil influence
its Human Resource and Management Practices.
5.
6. BRAZIL
• Brazil is the largest country is South America and is the
fifth largest nation in the world.
• They were one of the colonies of Portugal.
• The gained their independence in the year 1822
• The people of Brazil speak Portuguese.
• They are a people of many of many traditions.
• They are popularly known for their carnivals and football
7. HISTORY
• Prior to European discovery in 1500, the area now
known as Brazil was occupied by between two and five
indigenous people. Spain and Portugal were the two
early rivals to fight for control of the South American
continent and they largely divided it up, per provisions
of the treaty of tordesillas (1494), so Portugal got
modern day Brazil and Spain got the remainder.
•Brazil was ruled by the Portuguese till 1822, when they
gained independence.
8. COLONIALISM AND TRADING PATTERNS
• Brazil’s main function was to export its raw materials and
unprocessed agricultural products to Portugal and other
European countries.
• Brazil wood – first raw material to be exported
• Sugar cane – exported in 16th and 17th centuries from
plantations in north-east
• Coffee – in 1958 70% of Brazil’s exports consisted of
coffee beans
• Rubber – from 1850 it was collected from the Amazon
River basin.
9. AFTER COLONIALISM: ADJUSTING TO
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
• Even after independence in 1822, the trading pattern was
neo-colonial – Brazil still exported raw materials to
Portugal and other European countries.
• Concentration on raw materials meant that manufacturing
and services were underdeveloped.
• In the 1950s the government introduced its Import
Substitution Industrialization (ISI) policy.
•Industries were developed to supply the goods Brazil used to
import
10. Cont.
• Brazil was ruled by the military from 1964 until 1985.
• The govt. introduced the ISI programme at the expense of
massive international debt.
•The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forced Brazil to
undergo a Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP).
• This ‘encouraged’ the expansion of the economy through
increased exports.
• The increased exports led to the development of cash crop
agricultural expansion – crops such as soya were grown
for export at the expense of staple food for the people.
11. Cont.
•There were also extensive cutbacks in health care,
education and human resource.
•Today, the IMF continues to apply stringent
conditions to
•any loans to Brazil.
12. HOW THEIR HISTORY INFLUENCES THEIR
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
• Even though the monarchical system has been abolished Brazilians
still have management practices similar to the monarchical system
in their organizations.
• These management practices are the authoritarian and
paternalistic management styles.
• They have a hierarchical business structure.
•
• It can be seen from their communication style, which is downward
communication
14. RELIGION
• In Brazil only 8% of the population do not follow any type of
religion; 64. 6% are catholic, while 22, 2% belongs to evangelic
religions and 5.2% to others. The religion segment has conquered
an equivalent of 16, 1 million members in the past decade and
5.2% to others.
• In data drawn from the 1991, 2000, and 2010 Brazilian Censuses
were analysed for men and women, our results indicate that
Brazilian men (women) who identified as Traditional Protestants
received a small wage premium 2.6% (1.4%) compared to those
who identified as Catholic, the largest religious denomination in
Brazil.
15. HOW THEIR RELIGION INFLUENCES
THEIR MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
• A research conducted in 2010 by some researchers showed that
protestant women in Brazil received lesser wages as compared to
the Catholics in the country.
• Most of the people in Brazil are Catholics and therefore are
somehow strict in their doing even though they like having a lot of
fun.
16.
17. GEOPOLITICS OF BRAZILAND HOW IT HAS
INFLUENCED ITS PEOPLE
• Geopolitics is the relationship by which a country’s political force or power
affects its economy. In a study by Costa (1992), when it took root in the
beginning of the 1930s. Geopolitics was directed to strengthen the national
state role in the projects concerning development in general. But because of
persistence increase in prices and economic mismanagement. Brazilian
adopted a system called ‘REAL PLAN’
• Which stopped the government from periodically raising prices and came
across with an activity also called (inflation indexing) it refers to automatic
adjustment built into tax provision to keep pace with inflation.
19. CULTURE
•Culture is the way of life of a group of people which includes
the way they eat, dress, talk ,receive new born babies into
the family, pay last respect to the dead etc.
•Brazilians are known to be open, friendly and charismatic.
•They enjoy each others company and prefer spending time
together than been private.
•They have life level of social involvement.
•They are rarely alone and perceive been alone as a sign of
depression or unhappiness.
20. HOW THEIR CULTURE INFLUENCES
THEIR MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
• Because they are open and friendly they are mostly
transformational and charismatic leaders.
• They have high concern for people. So Brazilian leaders
mostly encourage teamwork.
• They can also be considered as technical people
dimension.
• Brazil has more flexible time, and punctuality is not seen
as an important thing to them. It’s even considered to be
disrespectful if people arrive fifteen minutes early in a
meeting.
