Select a company that you admire for its success and
reputation.
1. Name the company, its location, the
industry, the company's products and describe the company Values
and Culture.
2. This company is planning to expand into a new
country which has tremendous business potential and would like to
set up a manufacturing plant there. Assume the foreign country,
imagine it has been hit by Covid and is under lockdown for the next
two months. Explain the possible cultural, ethical, legal,
technological and other challenges that the company could face and
how should it overcome them?
3. You have been appointed as
General Manager to head the company's manufacturing Operations,
based in the capital of the foreign country, and will be leading a
cross cultural, cross functional management team comprising of
Manager Production (from Canada, male 35 years), Manager Finance
(from India, female 45 years), Manager HR (a local from the
country, male 50 years), Manager Supply Chain (from Germany, male
60 years)
3.1 What personality traits should each of these managers
possess in order to perform their respective jobs. Explain in
detail how the specific traits of each person will enable that
person to do his/her job better.
3.2 Elaborate the challenges that you will face in communicating
with each of these managers. What would be the purpose of
communication, the means and channels of communication?
Write your answers specific to the selected company, its home
country and the foreign country it is expanding into. Apply the
concepts studied in the course to this company. Do not write
general answers.
This is a group assignment, of at least 6 typed pages, and has
to be submitted in a Word file by the deadline. Please avoid
plagiarism and write in your own words. Note that once submitted,
assignments cannot be resubmitted or changed.
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