Internatinal Management: Effective Cooperation in Multicultural Environment of Companies Established in the Czech Republic

Abstract:

The contribution is devoted to the area of human resource management in multinational environment. The issue of international cooperation is considered extremely topical, especially now, in the current period that is typical for a very quickly proceeding process of internationalization and globalization. Recently we can observe continuous intensification of connections among members of various national cultures. In the contribution various forms of mutual cooperation of companies expanding their activities behind the borders of the countries and cultures in which they were founded and established. Attention is focused on conditions of successful international cooperation including ways of bringing near of cultures of mutually cooperating companies. Subsequently, results of empirical research focused on Czech working environment are introduced. Main characteristic features of societal culture and the culturally specific attributes viewed as contributing or as inhibiting outstanding leadership in Czech Republic were mapped.