Management issues in transition within Singapore

The main purpose of this dissertation is to study how Singaporean management style change due to the factors including global imperatives, regional imperatives, contemporary societal context, managerial cultures and trends and transitions as applied under Chatterjee & Nankervis’s (2007) Convergent-Divergent Process Model and
identify how foreign managers may deal with when they enter into the Asian market. The study is based on literature review of secondary data to identify the significant
factors influence the change in Singaporean management style.
Literature review will be performed throughout the process of this dissertation by applying the Chatterjee & Nankervis’s (2007) Convergent-Divergent Process Model.
Under this model, five concepts with different sub-sections are used as a foundation to study the Singaporean management style, major factors influence the change in
Singaporean management style, how foreign managers deal with these factors and conclusions.