The Study of Culture impacts on Male Managers’ Decision Making within Multinational Project Teams; Case Study: Zirsakht Telecommunication Co

Seyed Farzad Mirmiran; Ali Sanayei

Seyed Farzad Mirmiran Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
Ali Sanayei Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran

Abstract

The appropriate method for overcoming problems of new organizations is to provide knowledge based teams with optimum output. Making such teams needs experienced experts. Nowadays productive organizations are increasing and their developing depends on their globalization; therefore cultural differenced may cause great changes in the decision making process in these teams. The aim of the present study is to determine the influence of social culture on male managers’ decisionmaking styles within multinational project teams. For this reason; the number of 100 person of senior and midlevel managers working in the project teams from the two company of Iranian Zirsakht Co and Korean KT Co through Available Non-probabilistic sampling method. The influence of social culture on managers’ decision-making styles has been examined through Structural Equation Model by using the software known as AMOS version 23 in the two section of Evaluation model Structural section. Also SPSS version 23 was applied for comparing analysis results. The results of the recent study showed that social culture influences managers’ decision making styles at international project teams from the two Iranian and Korean nationalities.

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Author Biographies

Seyed Farzad Mirmiran, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Department of Management, College of Human Sciences , Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Ali Sanayei, Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran

Department of Management Research

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