Research a global organization and a cultural issue that affects this organization's interactions outside the United States (American Express)

AMERICAN EXPRESS Name Course Name Tutor Date of submission American Express The company is a multinational financial service provider which has the headquarters at Three World Financial center, Manhattan, New York is the United States. It deals with credit cards, charge card and the traveler`s cheque. The cultural issue indentified in this case is valuing of the team with which the organization is working with. The company has received variety of awards as it had created a winning corporate culture and also appreciated workplace diversity. The company has maintained commitment to the workplace ethics and culture. The company has recognized one fact that the employees communicate a lot to the outside world about the particular firm hence they ensure that the workers adhere to the ethical and cultural codes. Employees communicate the organization`s mission. The firm does this through spending time with the employees and also providing the necessary resources. The strong understanding is mutual to the parties involved which is another factor that contributes to the company team. The company values is also a key contributor to the company culture which is accompanied by the ability of the top level executives who act in the same way that the employees are supposed to act. When the employees see that the senior person is adhering to the culture of the organization, such an employee will be able to try as much as possible adhere to the code. Some of the values are: one, customer commitment where the employees should maintain good interpersonal relationship with the clients, Providing quality service to the clients to make them satisfied with the service, upholding integrity in all he actins that are done, teamwork inspiration that they must of all of them adhere their teams, respect other persons in the organization and to the outside environment, personal accountability where such a person will give commitment to the task that is supposed to be done (American Express, 2010). Some of the ethical issue that the firm must deal as result of globalization is the issue of wages. Most of the companies in American take advantage of going to the underdeveloped nations where they express their willingness to invest. After this, they usually set low wages for the employees as they know that such nations that are at the mercy of the big nations will usually agree given that they have no options. The ethical issue to observe here is wage. The firm should remunerate at fair terms to the organization a...