Week 3: MNC Section III
MNC: Toyota Company
Home Country: JAPAN and Host Country: United States (USA)
Complete an assessment of values, culture, and norms.
Q.1 How does this influence the culture and operations of one of the countries your MNC (Toyota Manufacturing Company) operates in?
Use the Hofstede Cultural Dimensions to showcase the comparisons of the host and home countries, available at: https://www.hofstede-insights.com/ (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) .
Q.3 What advantages and disadvantages does this country provide to the MNC (Toyota Manufacturing Company)?
Q.4 How does your MNC (Toyota Manufacturing Company) market its product or service differently comparatively due to these issues?
Comparing Cultural Dimensions
Notes: Explain with a bar chart with about six dimensions and comparison
⦁ The Hofstede model of national culture consists of six dimensions, developed by Prof. Geert Hofstede and his research team.
⦁ Go to ⦁ https://www.hofstede-insights.com/ ⦁ (Links to an external site.) and scroll down to “Country Comparison Tool”. Type in your MNCs: Toyota Home country (Japan) and then type in your MNCs: Toyota Host country (USA).
⦁ As an example, I chose Germany as my Home Country and the United States as my MNC’s Host country. You can now see the chart of the 6 cultural dimensions (below).
⦁ Explain what these mean to you and your MNC (Toyota Manufacturing Company). How different/similar are the dimensions? What are the implications for your MNC?
⦁ Please add your bar chart by taking a snapshot of it.
GRADING CRITERIA
Section Points Description
Section III 20 Complete an assessment of values, culture, and norms. How does this influence the culture and operations of one of the countries your MNC operates in? Use the Hofstede Cultural Dimensions to showcase the comparisons of the host and home countries, available at: https://www.hofstede-insights.com/.
What advantages and disadvantages does this country provide to the MNC? How does your MNC market its product or service differently comparatively due to these issues?
