Cross Cultural Barriers and Survival of Multinational Enterprise MNEs in Nigeria
As enterprise operations continue to be globalized through international extensions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, strategic relationships and partnerships, multinational firms need to offer consideration regarding issues of culture in human resource management exercises as a solution for prosperity. The global association is able if only it can cross over any barrier among administration and culture so that personal associations with other individuals in the association and society progress toward becoming in agreement. This is basic on the grounds that social relativity and reality in associations impact tasks. The research was intended to explore the Cross cultural Barriers influencing the Survival of Multinational Enterprise (MNEs) In Nigeria. Given the routine nature of operations of the multinational corporations. The contingency approach and particularistic theory were adopted. In Nigerian business environment, multinationals have to contend with certain primal issues when making entry which includes political landscape, legal and regulatory nature, terrorism issues. This paper discusses the major ways of overcoming the factors that can affect cross cultural communication in multinational corporations as improvement in intercultural competence, language training, cross cultural knowledge preparation and implementation of joint benefit strategy. This paper recommended amongst others that Governments in Nigeria should ensure that cultural dimensions are reflected in private public partnership (PPP) agreements with MNEs to ensure positive HRM across borders.