Comparative Management:

Comparative management is the fact that focuses on the similarities and differences among business
and management systems from different contexts.

Comparative management is the study of various management principles, and how they apply from
one situation to another. Such as with international companies run researches to compare their
policies and strategies with others to be stronger in the competition.

“Comparative management is the identifying measuring and interpreting the similarities and
differences among managers behavior techniques flowed and practices applied as found in various
countries.”

Werich & Kang,” Comparative management defined as study and analysis of management in
different environment and the reasons that enterprises show different results in various countries.

Comparative Management means comparison between management practices in the some

environment within a territory or region.

Comperative Management focuseson the similarities and differences among business and
management systems from different contexts.

Differences Between Comparative and international Mangement.

1. Comparative Management is a Broader concept it deals with overall management of all

countries. On the other hand international management is the narrow concept it focuses on
the operations of international funds/ multinational corporations.
2. Comparative Management is not a part of international Management.
Whereas international management is the part of comparative management.
3. Comparative Management does not need to specially aware of the local conditions of the
country.
International Management must aware of the local conditions of a country.

Objectives of Comparative Management:

1. Comparative Management helps to know about different management techniques used in

different countries.
2. It determines the duties and responsibilities of international managers.
3. It helps to compare different management styles used in different countries in the world.
4. Comparative management helps international managers to cope with the changes of the
management style of the developing countries.
5. Comperative Management helps to study cross cultural differences among the countries.
6. Comperativ management helps to develop prescriptive guideline that can serve as a bass for
effective action by management of enterprises.
 Nature of Comparative Management:

1. Advance managerial knowhow is much more important for economic growth and improve
productivity.
2. Technical knowledge is necessary for productivity improvement and fairly easy to transfer
between countries.
3. Designing a suitable approach or techniques of management lessons form other countries
are useful.
4. The fundamental functions of management are basically the same but the goals and the
means flowed differ among countries.
5. The skill and knowledge to manage can vary among various countries.
6. The relative influence of each environmental factor varies insignificance in each country.

Reasons for studying Comparative Management:

1. Assessing the transferability and applicability of Management Knowhow:

Everyday new situations and problems are arising by studying comperative mangement we
will able to acknowledge the management knowhow to handle those situations and resolve
the problems as well.
2. Identify, Describe, Explain and predict the impact of the environmental constraint:
Comperative management helps us to Identify, Describe, Explain and predict the impact of
the environmental constraint of an organization. It helps us to cope with a new
environmnet.
3. Develop prescriptive guideline :
Comperativ management helps to develop prescriptive guideline that can serve as a bass for
effective action by management of enterprises. Comparative mangement suggest to study
other organizations strategy and form a new guldeline.
4. Formulate policies:
Comperative management helps formulate policies for direct foreign investment for
multifunctional organizations and international businesses.
5. Study cross cultural management:
Comperative management focuses on issues of cross-cultural leadership, employee
attitudes of a organiarion that compare how they are and how we are.
6. To manage international technology transfer:
It is such a study which point out the technological differences between the organizations
and between the countries.
7. To seek new management Frontier:
Managing human resources is very challenging as compared to managing technology.
Comperative manageent helps to seek management frontier.
8. To gather experiences:
Comperative Management helps to gather experiences from imargine economy.
9. To forecast:
We study coperative management to forecast imagine issues in international management.