Week 5 – Language as an Economy Profit

How can one describe culture may vary from another. Culture is indeed growing and developing in many ways. This is all due to communication. What I can say about culture is that it makes society the way society is today in terms of communicating and behavioral ethics. The moral values and personality we carry within ourselves is different from another and it is often ambiguous as it changes overtime.

Peter and Waterman’s “Excellent Cultures” concepts revealed that a company itself is often changing and it is seen from the culture the company carries which can be the pavement to a company’s successful.
This can be seen as a relation to the importance of the Mandarin language to Australia’s present and future growth in economy. Australia’s businesses have been experiencing a massive crisis due to the shortage of Mandarin-speaking employees as covered in ABC News, Australian Business Suffer from Mandarin Shortfall. China as Australia’s number 1 chain supplier is predicted to overtake America’s economy in a decade. This makes up for the many reasons why Australians today should master Mandarin for better business relationship with Chinese organizations.

Many luxurious retail companies today seek employees with Mandarin or Cantonese speaking abilities. John Calleija, owner of the Calleija jewelers in Queensland managed to sell a diamond ring worth several hundred thousand dollars with the help from his employee, being able to communicate with the buyer from Hong Kong.

Culture is the action from socializing as asserted from Schein’s model of organizational culture. With the act of socializing from the means of culture, business can be enhanced and triumph in success through the development of culture for the visions of a company.

Reference:

Australian businesses suffer from Mandarin shortfall 2012, News program, ABC News, Queensland, 23 August.