Writing Homework Help

Part 1

• Assume you are currently a store manager at Wal-Mart and, because you speak Japanese fluently, the company has assigned you to manage one of their Seiyu-brand stores in Japan.

• Determine the skills, strengths, or qualities that you possess, relative to the seven dimensions of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Model, that would help you successfully manage your store.
• Predict two cultural differences that may challenge your current management style and suggest the key actions that could help you address them.

Part 2

determine the key reasons why economic freedom is so critical to multinational companies (MNCs). Provide one example from the information that you learned about China versus India to support your response

Part 3

examine two instances when multinational companies have used offensive or defensive competitive strategies. Address the following:

• Determine the major advantages that global companies would have over domestic competitors in sustaining competitive advantage as a result of using offensive or defensive competitive strategies.

Part 4

analyze two major political risks of operating a business in the emerging country you chose.

Address the following:

• Propose two actions that a multinational company could take to manage political risk in that country. Justify your response

Part 5

examine two potential risks that could adversely affect operational effectiveness of U.S. multinational corporations that have plans to do business in Cuba.

Address the following:

• Recommend strategies that could help the companies mitigate these risks. Provide a rationale for your reasoning

Part 6

assume you work for a multinational producer of fruit beverages that wants to expand its supplier base to include fruit farmers in Nicaragua. Address the following:

• Identify three key issues that your company must address with the local farmers to ensure success. Provide a rationale.

Part 7

examine the key challenges in finding global developers that Ms. Purnama may encounter. Speculate on whether elements of culture would affect the behavior of the developers she chooses.

BELOW IS WHAT ANOTEHR STUDENT POSTED SO YOU CAN READ THIS AND DO THIS DICUSSION BASED OFF THIS

For Real, Ms. Purnama would encounter key challenges in finding global developers to suit her preference. Few key challenges are:

• Finding developers that can create a platform that understands how those local shoppers behave.
• Difficult to figure out the taste of the shoppers due to culture.

Yes, indeed culture orientation and the way of life standout to be a major element that would affect the behavior of the developers she chooses. Considering how nowadays peers tend to influence how others behave, developing a system that keep tracts on shoppers’ behavior would require more complexity that may misread the feedback from a survey/shoppers’ data.

Hence, I think it would be wise that Ms. Purnama finds a global develop that understands advertising pitching and consumer purchasing behavior. With this I am sure Ms. Purnama will be able to keep track of the consumers’ behavior and decide what and when to offer promotions.

Least the developer forgot that the people of Indonesia, like any other people believe and live by their culture, using it as benchmark for whatever they do, including purchasing.

Part 8

Since June last year, your company has experienced challenges in hiring plant workers for its electronic manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China due to competitors’ new manufacturing plants in the area. You have been assigned to head the HR department for the plant.

• Outline an HR plan to address the issue. Provide a rationale for your decisions

Part 9

Imagine that you are taking a trip to visit a prospective customer located in your chosen country for three days. For the first day, the company president and executives have asked to meet during the day to show you the plant and take you out for dinner and entertainment at night. You will be in meetings the first two days. Your company will give you a corporate credit card and expect you to take the potential clients out on the third day for socializing. From the discussion preparation, outline a seven-point strategy for negotiating the business for your company while you socialize with the executives of the plant. Provide a rationale for your response.

Part 10

Rank the three& most important concepts that you have learned in this course in order of significance (one being the most important; three, the least). Provide a rationale for your ratings.

Part 11

Scenario

It is widely known that knowledge management systems are key to success in multinational companies. Imagine that you are vice president of a company that is ramping up to go global.

Your task is to design a comprehensive best-practices policy list for managing existing knowledge and any new knowledge as it becomes available. The best-practices policy should include a task list that will help your company to handle unexpected events such as earthquakes, demonstrations, and bomb threats as well as mundane issues of conducting business in any country or countries into which you will be expanding. The policy list should also take any unique challenges that your company may face into account.

Preparation

Please choose one of the following industries for this assignment:

• Jewelry.
• Apparel.
• Chemicals.
• Consumer electronics or electronic components.
• Medical supplies or equipment.
• Bins, totes, crates, material handling.
• Food products.
• Pharmaceuticals.
• Children’s clothing, toys, and other products.

Note: You may make all assumptions needed to complete this assignment.

Instructions

Write a 6–8 page paper in which you:

1. Design a comprehensive best-practices policy list that includes policies on the following:

• Sanitation (hand washing, toilet facilities, etc.).
• Eating and drinking (at desks, on the company grounds, inside in the manufacturing area at designated locations, etc.).
• Conflict resolution (mediation and/or arbitration with designated mediator on staff, etc.).
• In-house team leadership and meeting management (e.g., minimum meeting times, scribes, appointed leaders).
• Online team (24-hour coverage on phone due to time differences, etc.).
• Security (e.g., leaving doors open, locks, key return policy for departing workers).
• Emergency evacuation procedures.

Determine the key benefits of creating such policies. Provide a rationale for your response.

Speculate on the major ramifications if such policies are not created. Provide a rationale for your response.

Predict the significant ways in which the best-practices policy that you created will contribute toward the long-term sustainability of the company. Provide a rationale for your response.

Determine whether your best-practices policy would provide a competitive advantage over other international companies. Provide one example of a company’s best-practices policy to support your response.

Use at least three quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar websites do not qualify as academic resources.

This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:

• Design a comprehensive best-practices policy list that considers the benefits and impact of such policies on a given company.