National Culture as a Barricade to Adopting Western Management Techniques for Local Businesses in Pakistan

Abstract

This piece of work looks at the subject of culture which is a very important factor in the sustainability of change in Pakistan. In order to change this typical organizational culture so as to optimize the dynamic contribution of the workers, effective management is the most important issue beside anything else, as the change in organizational culture is generally the change in norms, values, beliefs and attitudes, which is pretty difficult most of the time.

Unfortunately, there is another most important problem on this side of the picture, which is the typical mindset of the entrepreneur. Most of the business organizations in Pakistan are local and family businesses with informal procedures and approximately non-existent professional management style. The owners’ mentality is that they are as qualified as the entrepreneur and management, which they are not. Therefore, the businesses style in Pakistan believes in day-to-day management and spends nearly all of their time in troubleshooting.

Consequently, they do not have strategic planning, long term, or short-term goals. On the other side, local industries are not yet entirely convinced that professional management can enhance the potential and profitability except for few progressive businesses. Therefore, the local businesspersons still believe preparation for themselves and their workforce as expenditure of time and money. This has led them to a very unstable situation where any modification is unsustainable, thus results in a very slightly development and growth to a certain extent decline in organizational.

This piece of work also highlights that there is a need to alter the leadership behavior, and it also recommends that the senior management re- examine the values of its employees and shows a more devoted role in implementing a change that is sustainable and develop and new and far more better organization culture