In international business, an American manager should be concerned about the concept of Islamophobia. The American manager should focus on the implications of the concept by drawing lessons from the effects of islamophobia on American business. Notably, major attacks have been associated with Muslims, as seen with various media report. During 9/11 attack, the government of the US termed that the attack was perpetrated by terrorists who were Muslims. Therefore, the US has made its population to be negative against the Muslims. This tendency has made business in the US to be sour. Thus, the following discussion will indulge in discussing how islamophobia has negatively affected American Businesses.
Discussion
Profits and losses
The article by Taras (2012) illustrates that islamophobia has drastically led to decrease in profits and sales for business. This is because the Muslims tend to buy products from their affiliated businesses. For instance, a Muslim in need of a pair of shoes would be happy to buy them from a shop owned by another Muslim rather than go and buy from an American. This is because the individual Muslim sees himself as an enemy against the Americans. In some extreme circumstance, a Muslim would prefer not to buy a product from an American shop when he finds that the fellow Muslim’s shop does not have. Therefore, such situation would mean that Muslims do not channel much money to the American business. The American manager would see that embracing the concept would mean living in a business environment where not all customer segments are embraced. However, the opposite of the above scenario is that the American manager would make extreme profits by disrespecting …in the US. This is because more Muslims would flock to the American-related business to buy good. In addition, rather than staying with their money in banks, the Muslims would be attracted to use them to buy goods in the US since they will not be fearing profiling.
Hiring perceptive
In the contemporary business environment, innovations are important in making sure that businesses succeed in warding off critical competition. Taras (2012) argued that a diverse workforce has the ability to innovate to greater heights than a non-diverse force. This situation is being experienced in America where most employers tend to hire a small number of Muslim. This hiring is only meant to avoid criticism from the advocates of affirmative action. The employers have the mentality that hiring Muslims would be another name for ‘hiring terrorists.’ Therefore, it would mean that the hired Muslims execute their duties as ‘suspects’ of terrorism in their places of work. Thus, the Muslims would lack motivation in executing their roles. Therefore, lack of motivation would translate the lack of innovation that makes an organization to lag behind. For instance, the lack of motivation makes group in an organization to be ineffective. Hence, islamophobia leads to ineffective group performance that makes an organization unable to bear competition from international businesses that disheartens islamophobia. On the other hand, the an American manager would enjoy a strong ground against hefty completion from strong rivals by disregarding the … this is because effective teams would be created being wrapped by innovations that will ensure that the particular organization remains on top of others concerning the creation of unique products that would sweep the market by a storm.
Multi-Sectorial Approach
Sheehi (2011) argued that tourism is one of the important business in the world. In fact, an American manager in a tourism industry would ensure that diversity in the workforce is enabled by all countries to make sure that there is a good rapport between countries. However, the American society has been experiencing a significant decrease in the number of tourists. Sheehi (2011) argued that Muslims are demotivated to visit the US. Taras (2012) who argued that the US has created a great discomfort for the Muslims second this point. Therefore, Muslims have found alternate tourist destinations such as Singapore, China, Russia, and Malaysia. In simpler terms, the US has negatively implicated its business by leading to a situation of loss of revenue that could otherwise be generated by tourism activities. Tourism is multi-sectoral phenomenon that sees almost every sector being affected. For instance, a tourist visiting the US would be needed first to commute implying that the transport sector benefits in such instances. On the other hand, the respective tourist would be need a place to call home for few days such as accommodation in the motels and hotels implying that the hospitality industry benefits in such instance (Tausch, 2007). This is not forgetting that the tourist would be needed to communicate with various people from therefore benefiting the communication sector. Therefore, the benefits of tourism are innumerable since the list of benefiting sectors goes on and on. Thus, the international manager should be concerned that islamophobia would affect his/her business since negative effects on tourism would be felt by the business. Therefore, the American manager would measure the effects of islamophobia on various sectors with the possibility of the business benefiting from the chain established.
Psychological Perceptive
The article by Allen (2016) illustrates by giving a psychological perceptive that islamophobia leads to a sick population of Muslims. Muslims in the US are a targeted group. For instance, they are discriminated when trying to access work opportunities. On the other hand, they are targeted by the criminal justice agencies who brand them names such as criminals and terrorists. In fact, they are referred to as Aliens indicating that they live on wrong places. Sheehi (2011) adds that such subjection makes them experience social, behavioral, and psychological stress and alterations. Most of the Muslims are underperforming in their places of work. Such work environments lacks integration such that it results to different groups going against each other. For instance, the Muslims would gather themselves as a group to defend themselves from the majority. On the other hand, the majority Americans would group themselves with the mentality that the Muslims might attack them anytime.
Therefore, the existence of fear within the Muslim groups would make their voices go down. In fact, they will fail to contribute to any motion of change that seeks to improve the functioning of an organization since they are criminal with the theme of ‘destruction.’ A research by Kumar (2012) indicated that Muslims aged 11-18 years have a higher propensity to develop acculturative stress. Therefore, such children grow to become adults that appear to be withdrawn from the rest of the society. The Muslims suffering from depression would do ‘destruction’ to the company by failing in communication that is a cornerstone in the formulation and implementation of business ideas. The effect of disregarding islamophobia is that there would be improved communication, which would have the Muslims taking part in the discussion effectively (Tausch, 2007). Therefore, the international manager would see a situation whereby there is faster accomplishment of set objectives from a coordinated force.
Rigidity
Kumar (2012) has contributed to the effects of islamophobia on business in the international spectrum arguing that it causes rigidity. Rigidity, in this sense, implies that most firms appear to fear to expand. Immediately after the 9/11 attack, the rate of building towers and huge buildings reduced significantly. This is because the developers would assume that there might be another attack on the next tower. Such rigidity is negative to business growth since companies evade the risk of injecting more money into the economy by establishing more business premises since they believe that such structures would become the prey to the Muslims in the US (Allen, 2016). Hence, an American manager would be needed to deal with islamophobia to ensure that he succeeds in the international business by not embracing fear of islamophobia that would make him not to initiate projects that would benefit the business. Disregarding islamophobia will ensure that the manager diversify his options by creating more structures that would foster business which will automatically increase profits. For instance, constructing more tourism destination, in terms of hotels, will ensure that tourists have no problems with accommodation implying that more clients would be attracted to the respective countries.
Conclusion
It has been argued that islamophobia has led to negative effects to businesses in the US. Most authors agree that profits have gone since the Muslims tend to refuse to buy from the Americans. In addition, work environments are adversely affected since there is no coordination that is brought by the absence of communication between the Muslims and non-Muslims. Therefore, the American manager has the role of ensuring that the concept does not bring negative effects to the business.