오스트리아와 한국의 경영문화 비교연구

Abstract

As a result of the increasing globalization the interest of the economic people in cross-cultural management is increasing. In the meantime executives have realized that they must satisfy new pretensions like intercultural competence, if the enterprises they manage engage employees from different cultures

The focus of this diploma thesis is on the comparison between the leaderships of korean executives focused on the austrian and austrian-korean employees in Austria. The goal of this paper is to analyze the different mentalities of these two countries in management felt. This diploma thesis is therefore primarily addressed to persons, who always wanted to know how Koreans and Austrians behave in management and business positions.

The first two chapters provide an introduction in the topic and familiarize the reader with the concept of the cross-cultural management, before it will be presented in the third chapter the most important culture-comparative study, which has ever been conducted and which comprises cultural differences between several countries. In the fourth chapter the Koreans and Austrians and their management styles will be specified, while their behavior pattern will be analyzed empirically in the fifth chapter.

In the empirical study, which shall detect the typical mentality and dealing of Koreans and Austrians, will be investigated if the often argued national character and the behavior patterns , which are said to be particular to those two nations, also apply to the interviewed persons in the survey.

The results of the study, which will be subsequently presented in the summary, shall render assistance to those persons, which are interested in a collaboration with Austrian Business partners.