Culture and Management by Alfredo Behrens. Part 1.

You may find Part 2 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlxAkMIcOtY

This segment deals with the following topics:

American Scientific Management spilled over the world as if all people would respond equally, with the same intensity, to the same pecuniary incentives. Perhaps that is wrong, as it seems to be in the Samba Schools parade. There, people who moonlight for months deliver a world class parade on the date and time agreed to. Yet many among the same people may leave work early after having arrived late at multinationals in Rio de Janeiro. These people, as well as the much admired Che Guevara, President Allende, Acapulco plungers and bullfighters, the list is long, do what they do but earnestly enough, but not so much for money.

Not only Latin Americans do not seem to be as motivated by money as Americans are, they enter into a work contract where they expect as much protection as they are ready to give in terms of work: all-out. But modern employment limits protection by excluding parents from work-related health coverage. This limit sends the wrong signal to workers feel shortchanged, leading to lack of engagement which translated into low productivity.

Then the Coyote vs. the Road Runner is introduced to illustrate a recent piece of management research but that is dealt with in part 2.

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Education

Tags:

• Culture
• Management
• Cross-Cultural
• Latin
• America
• incentives
• protection
• Alfredo
• Behrens
• Che
• Guevara
• Allende

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