Brazil in recent years have faced some political turmoil where it has been slowly breaking down. According to Pinheiro (2017), “campaigns are expensive and often supporters have sold their support in exchange for benefits from government parties.” This statement shows a great analysis that the country can fall under a considerable amount of corruption which can shape the behaviors that leaders will make decisions on. According to Moran, Abramson, and Moran (2014), the reason why this pitfull exist is because, “when does a gift become a bribe? This is a difficult line to determine. In Brazilian business business then they value receiving presents from their visitors.” This type of acceptance on how Brazil conducts their business can see why a person may be easily swayed to change their position on an issue. One reason why Brazil was able to break away from things like this in the past was the fact that certain reforms were past to make sure corruption didn’t happen. According to Moran, Abramson, and Moran (2014), “The Brazilian president elected was a simple from a poor family in 2002.” Because of his origins, former president Lula reduced unemployment, reformed pensions plans and enjoyed many accomplishments.” Michel Temer is the current president of the country has been at the forefront of the political scandal where supporters are blocking voters right to stay in power. He has had to face trying to better serve the country after Dilma Rousseff had been impeached. This recent trend or corruption needs to be handled the current president needs to take ownership of these past actions and correct them. If this is the correct political state of the country then it can be damaging for any business transactions. If I were the leader of this country then that is the first thing I would do is to put new reforms in place to get this country back on track. Only the future will tell where this country is headed, but for right now it looks like it the country is in dire straights.
References:
Moran, Robert, Abramson, Neil, & Moran, Sarah. (2014). Managing Cultural Differences. Oxford: Routledge.
Pinheiro, Paulo. (2017). Brazil’s Broken Political Leadership. New York Times.
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Despite all of the growth that Brazil has experienced and all of the potential future growth, they are still very difficult to do business with. Moran, Abramson, Moran tell us that the country can be “a challenging experience due to economic uncertainties involving inflation, currency exchange and interest rates” just to name a few. Keith Warburton writes for World Business Culture that “Brazil is a country with almost limitless potential” (2018). He goes on to say however, that the country seems to be constantly trapped in a cycle of political corruption leading to economic crisis followed by periods of growth which breeds renewed optimism to the country (2018).
There is a growing recognition in the country that the historical barriers to growth must be
tackled and the growing populist is demanding changes especially among the growing population
which is predominantly young and aspirational (2018). One can only hope that the youth of
Brazil are exhausted with the way that their political system has been run for most of their
lifetime and seek to make changes that will truly bring lasting peace and prosperity to all
Brazilians and their country. If Brazil can stabilize their political system, there is nowhere but up
for this country.
Moran, R. T., Abramson, N. R., & Moran, S. V. (2014). Managing Cultural Differences (Ninth ed.). New York: Routledge.
Warburton, K. (2018). Business culture in Brazil. World Business Culture. Retrieved from
https://www.worldbusinessculture.com/country-profiles/brazil/culture/.