Culture friendly policies like, 1. Friendly festival holiday structure. 2. Relig

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Culture friendly policies like,

1. Friendly festival holiday structure.

2. Religious friendly, like many companies now even have 'Prayer rooms', where people can sit and meditate and fulfill their spiritual needs.

3. Language friendly policies, enabling employees to have transperancy of the policies of the organization they are working for, by having translations of policies in all regional languages.

4. Policies providing compensations or concessions for pilgrimage related lodging and travelling.

5. Providing relief exercises during disasters.

6. Food practices that are host country friendly.

Culture friendly practices like,

1. Not posing restriction on religious sentiments like, wearing of turbans by Sikhs, or 'takiyas' or 'kufis' by Islamic followers etc.

2. Not posing restriction on national dress code or language. Like in India, saree is a national dress code of ladies and national language is Hindi.

3. Organizing cultural oriented events and engagements, encouraging maximum participation of employees by providing some rewards, holding national level competitions etc.

4. Practice of performing the prayers during major festive occassions within the premises.

It is very much essential for the company to understand and adopt to the culture of the host country and implement possible policies and practices that encourage cultural unity. This in turn helps the company in gaining trust and confidence from employees, along with employee satisfaction.

POSSIBLE CHALLENGES

1. It is difficult to adopt to diverse culture, like India. It requires lot of research and analysis of each part of India, where it wishes to set up its operations.

2. Sometimes policies like holiday structure and pilgrim concessions become too expensive for the company.

3. When a company has major dependency for operations on host country, it becomes difficult to manage culture alongside, allocation and delegation of work, especially during festive seasons or religious traditions, involving large group of employees following one particular religion or custom.

4. It becomes difficult to manage during sensitive conditions in the country like religious riots or cultural tensions.

5. It has to setup a system or department that solely addresses to the cultural aspect, considering, religion, language, beliefs, customs and traditions.

Explanation / Answer

What are some policies and practices that multinational organization can propose and develop to help create respectful cultural relationship” between their home country and its host countries. What could be considered a challenge of understanding and operating in cultures that are drastically different than your own home country.

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