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Organizational Behavior Case This case is interesting because it portrays the cultural variances that an employee might find in different cultures from a first person perspective. First, an American employee shares his perspective about his experience working on a project in Germany. He finds that the employees are extraordinarily methodological during the planning phase of the project; then rather autonomous throughout the duration of the project. In his experience American firms generally set a goals and performance targets earlier in the project and do not require that the entire team comes to a consensus about the underlying ideologies that are driving the project while also expecting that the team leader takes a more authoritarian...

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Since they all understand the entirety of the project on a deeper level than the American culture would generally allow for, they believe that this facilitates an approach that improves quality and allows the team to work autonomously on the tasks. Since the employees already have developed a comprehensive view of the project and its stages, it is believed that there generally isn't much of a need to extensive further collaboration.
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Luthans, F., Youssef, C., & Rawski, S. (2011). A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Impact of Psychological Capital and Reinforcing Feedback on Problem Solving and Innovation. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 333-350.
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