Article Review: Career Development in Cross-Cultural Environment

            Introduction

The article ‘’Career development in the Cross-cultural Environment’’ authored by Balciunaitiene, Barvydiene and Petkeviciute (2013) is mainly objected at discussing the inimitableness of career development as well as cultural competence within a cross cultural surrounding. With the rapid growth of globalization, career development has risen to be a rather significant matter due to the cultural diversity that it accommodates. The article is expository rather than being expressive and investigative in demonstrating the significance of understanding the multicultural surrounding today in the quest for achieving career growth.  Understanding the uniqueness of career development and communication abilities in a cross cultural surrounding is significant in pursuing career growth. Based on the article’s results it was demonstrated that cross-cultural communication development and competence can gradually raise the potent of career probability in a working surrounding that is characterized by several cultures.

In particular, the authors appeal to the need for corporations to understand the concept of globalization and its general relation to career development. Due to the economic changes are facing the business world today individuals in governments, corporations and firms are necessitated to develop the capability to regulate individual career in order to generate efficiency while working in multi-cultured teams. The article holds that most corporations are facing a mutual challenge on how to retain and gain the most suitable staffs in the quest of attaining success in a multi-cultured surrounding (Balciunaitiene, Barvydiene, and Petkeviciute, 2013). The article focuses on corporations within Lithuania where diversity management and career growth has now become a critical issue as corporations are seeking for established means to acquire market stability and a desirable corporate image.

Balciunaitiene, Barvydiene, and Petkeviciute (2013) point out that today corporations recognize that recruiting as well as retaining individuals has become one of the more challenging operations. The authors demonstrated that the thought of career development within a cross-cultural surrounding is usually associated with distinct, social, ethnic and communication skills.  However, despite the recognition for handling cultural diversity in today’s workplace, the main problem is that staffs are not very successful in reference to the personal careers based on the lack or inadequate communication capability. This, therefore, implies that cross-cultural communication capabilities development is crucial not just for the career growth of the involved employees but also on the achievement of results and efficiency for the organization.

The authors conclude the discussion with some varied success degrees in that they permit some discreet perceptive to fit into the base of their asserted arguments. The author's inferences that despite there being the need to address career development through multi-cultural communication in the quest of achieving business success there are a number of forces that act against the efforts of these companies. These issues include rapid economic changes, employee’s unwillingness, financial and knowledge constraints (Balciunaitiene, Barvydiene, and Petkeviciute, 2013). The fact that most of the organizations are still focused on attracting a larger market and chasing financial expansion rather than focusing on employees needs is relevant. In that most of the high staff, turnover is mainly fueled by the lack of satisfaction and the incapability to develop a favorable working surrounding that embraces cultural diversity and promotes career growth.

In conclusion, article ‘’Career Development in Cross-Cultural Environment’’ is associated to numerous merits by its ability to analyze the current business situation with accurate and reliable arguments. The authors’ takes a unique path that is case based but ensures that it incorporates a global perspective of the issue. The authors provide arguable claims which makes the article an authoritative one which offers a different perspective to its readers while generating fresh insights.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

Balciunaitiene A., Barvydiene V., and Petkeviciute, N.  (2013). Career Development in Cross-Cultural Environment. Pp. 1- 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/MOSR.1392.1142.2013.66.1. Pdf