AVERAGE SALESPERSON IN COLOMBIA

Based on the four variables of the reading Leadership behavior and organizational commitment: A comparative study of American and Indian salespersons, I am going to describe and place my points of view of an average salesperson in Colombia.

the organizational commitment, according to McGee (1987) is divided in two categories affective commitment and continuance commitment, in my point of view an average colombian salesperson has a lot affective commitment when is working for a compny because they accept the organization's goals and values, more than continuance commitment because even though the employees accept the organization values they are always looking for a better job even if they are happy en the company.

If a worker want to keep its job and be outstanding in colombia, he must has a leadership behavior, in my opinion the colombian people like to work individual because they like to be recognized and highlighted for its jobs.

In the role stress we have consider, the role ambiguity and the role conflict, the first one represent the power or authority that an employee has to preform a task or the information that he has to do something , i think that this role in colombia is not very frecuently because we can see most of the salesperson has the power of bargain, that is an important task of the role ambiguity ; I consider the role conflict in colombia doesn't apply because there are lot respect for the managers and customer.

Finally the cultural factors are divide two: the individualism as I said before is very common in colombian people because everybody want to shows its capacities to be recognized and congratulated for its jobs, in the other hand, in the power distance the employees somethimes doesn't like to follow rules instead they like to do what they concider the best to do because they think they don't need a boss to tell them what to do.

References:

• Agarwal,Sanjeev; DeCarlo Thomas E; Vyas, Shyam B, (1999) Journal of International business studies, vol 30, Leadership behavior and organizational commitment: A comparative study of Aamerican and Indian salespersons.
• Image: www.cpamanagement.blogsport.com/2010/02/easy-sell.html

Blogs!!

I just checked my classmates blogs and i think it was so nice because all the blogs I checked were so different and they had different perspectives.

the one I like the most is:
http://www.19890522.blogspot.com/


I like the blog above because is very creative and has a lot of interesting things as videos and pictures.

"The allegator river story"

Classification according to the most offensive to the less 0bjetionable.

1.Sinbad
2.Abigail
3.Gregory
4.Slug
5.Ivan

I think Sinbad is the most offensive because the only way to cross the river was asking him for the favor,so he felt he has the power to ask wathever he want to Abigail.
Abigail also acted in a bad way beacuse she accepted Sinbad offer on the contrary she woul have explained the situation to Gregory or think in another possibility as rebulid a new brige to see Gregory; As the same time Gregory had a offesive reaction because he did not understad Abigail possition.
In the other hand Slug felling compassion for Abigail reacted beating Gregory, insted of it he would have talked to Gregory to convince him that Abigail did what she did just for love.
And the last one in my list is Ivan because he did not have nothing to do in the problem, even though he would have helped Abigail and maybe the situation would not be like that.

Reference:

image: http://www.wildanimalstickers.com/

Should individuals bear any responsibility for the actions of a corporation?

Corporations are the most common form of business organization, and one which is chartered by a state and given many legal rights as an entity separate from its owners. This form of business is characterized by the limited liability of its owners, the issuance of shares of easily transferable stock, and existence as a going concern. The process of becoming a corporation, call incorporation, gives the company separate legal standing from its owners and protects those owners from being personally liable in the event that the company is sued (a condition known as limited liability). Incorporation also provides companies with a more flexible way to manage their ownership structure. In addition, there are different tax implications for corporations, although these can be both advantageous and disadvantageous. In these respects, corporations differ from sole proprietorships and limited partnership. 1



As the above definition says , individuals and companies are two different elements, for the same reason I believe that any individual who is involved in a corporation should have the responsibilities of the corporations's actions, because the success or the failure of an organization does not depend on just a person it dependes of the whole group who is involved in it.

References

image: www.osram.es

1 corporation definition.(n.d), (online)

from: http://www.investorwords.com/1140/corporation.html

¿What is the relationship between national identity and corporate culture?

The concept of corporate culture is the total sum of the values, customs, traditions and meanings that make a company unique. Corporate culture is often called "the character of an organization" since it embodies the vision of the company’s founders. The values of a corporate culture influence the ethical standards within a corporation, as well as managerial behavior.[1]

On the other hand national identity refers to the distinguishing features of the group and to the individual's sense of belonging to it. A very wide range of criteria is used, with very different applications. Small differences in pronunciation may be enough to categorize someone as a member of another nation.[2]

The relationship that I found in the two concepts is that both have certain things, as values, traditions and characteristics that make them unique and different from others.




[1] organizational culture (2010). Retrieved February 6, 2010, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizational_culture


[2] Nation(2008). Retrived February 6, 201, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity

Cultures definitions

• "Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs (artifacts) of organization members and their behaviors. Members of an organization soon come to sense the particular culture of an organization. Culture is one of those terms that's difficult to express distinctly, but everyone knows it when they sense it."

Organizational culture. (n.d.) In free managment library online. Retrieved from http://managementhelp.org


•" Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving. "

Hofstede, G. (1997). Cultures and Organizations: Software of the mind. New York: McGraw Hill. Retrieved from: http://www.tamu.edu

•" a group of mutually interacting people with negotiated, shared values, understandings, norms, ideals, way of life, and way of looking at the world and their place in it."

Mazumdar Sanjoy. (n.d). in National research council Canada. Retrieved from
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca