Trompenaars (Achievement v/s Ascription) Achievement oriented culture - is where a Status/Authority to an individual is Earned and not given to him

m as a Right. Thus in corporate culture, job opportunities, and recruitment is done on basis of Merit, Performance and Experience. Ascription oriented culture- is where Status/Authority to an individual is given as a Right rather than earned. Here ethnicity, gender, religion, birth and seniority are more considered. UK comes under countries where status is achieved and Russia comes under countries where status is ascribed. (Ref Tables) (Rugman & Collinson, 2009)

When there is M&A between different cultured companies (TNK-BP), Trompenaars, (1994) recommends that when people from Achievement culture do business with Ascription culture, they should ensure that their team has senior position holders and they should respect the status of their other counterparts in other group. And when individual from Ascription culture does business with individuals from Achievement culture then, they should ensure that their team has technical data advisers and knowledgeable persons. This proves they are efficient and should respect the knowledge of their counterparts in the other group.

In my opinion TNK-BP is of Achievement culture even though there are majority of Russian nationals over British. Thus the recruitment procedure is in such a way where equal opportunities are provided to all applicants but selection is dependent on the merit, capability and experience. They have adopted compensation and incentive framework which is based on standard grading point system. Thus assessment and grades are given which corresponds to the range of salaries which varies for various regions and markets. (TNK-BP, 2012)[Online]

Source: International Strategy and Leadership Cross-Cultural Frameworks http://home.sandiego.edu/~dimon/cross_cultural_notes.pdf

References:

TNK-BP,

at TNK-BP. [Online] Available at http://www.tnk-bp.ru/en/career/tnk/> [Accessed on 12th March 2012]

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