Interacting efficiently with people from other cultures and behaving appropriately in a culturally novel context are indications of the cross-cultural skills and abilities needed by global managers. (Thomas and Peterson, 2015) Organizing and control operations across multiple environments have a direct impact on corporate performance and the path which the organizations will develop over time. Important factors differ from one country to another. The differences can be in country culture, religion, politics and even climate. Organizations that operates internationally needed to understand and cope with such differences, which can manifest themselves in terms of different standards, values and expectations in the various countries in which they operate. (Johnson and Scholes, …show more content…
Geographic divisions. Amazon’s organizational structure also involves geographic divisions. In this structural characteristic, groups are based on different geographic regions and related business goals. (Meyer, 2016)
Key Issues in Amazon’s Organizational culture
Amazon’s corporate culture pushes employees to go beyond traditional limits and conventions to develop bright ideas and solutions.
Amazon became the largest retailer and Jeff Bezos is now the fifth-richest man in the world. The part of Amazon’s success can be attributed to the fact that he’s basically invented a way of getting the most out of every employee. (Ryssdal, 2015)
A strategy of higher employee turnover works best "in companies like Amazon where the loyalty of customers is relatively more towards the product & its prices," and less towards its rarely seen employees. If low-retention policies will continue to play an important role in HR strategies will certainly generate strong opinions about such policies. (Heskett, 2015)
Amazon has a reputation of having the hard working employees. (Maitland, 1998) admits that ‘’pay and other financial benefits can inspire people to work harder and better, or demotivate them if this is seen as unacceptable.’’ As (Thompson, 1998) observes, ‘‘There is a popular