Assignment Details and Instructions.
You are part of a team of management consultants, working for a large telecommunications organisation operating solely within the UK. The organisation is planning to expand internationally in the next two years. As management experts, you have been asked to ensure that the process of internationalisation runs as smoothly as possible. Your team of management consultants have identified the following issues that could potentially cause challenges within cross-cultural working, during the process of internationalisation:
1. Differences in cultural values(i choose this one)
2. Culture shock and poor adjustment
3. Poor selection and development of potential expatriates (team members who will go to work abroad for extended periods).
4. A clash of work orientations and motivations
YOUR TASK
Choose one of the four challenges to cross cultural working.
PART ONE (1500 words) Construct a literature review of the key academic research relating to the topic you’ve chosen in order to provide your organisation with a detailed account of the issue and its relevance to cross cultural working.
PART TWO (1500 words). Provide THREE detailed recommendations as to how the organisation can minimise the likelihood of cross-cultural difficulties occurring.
Format of Assignment
The word limit is 3000 words (excluding reference list (Harvard referencing)).
You should ensure that you clearly state the challenge you have chosen to discuss.
You should separate your assignment clearly into two parts. There is a template shown below to help you achieve this.
You need to ensure that you are writing in an academic style throughout. This includes using academic references for both sections of the assignment. You need to incorporate theory extensively in your work and ensure that you are referencing in Harvard style.
As a guide you should draw on and appropriately cite at least 15 academic references in your assignment.
Additional Information
In tackling questions in cross-cultural management, it is important to be able to link the theory we have discussed with the real life issues of international working; particularly in being able to identify, analyse and make sense of the problems in the scenario. This will demonstrate that you have the ability to relate to the theoretical constructs we’ve discussed and show an awareness of the usefulness of theory in making sense of cross cultural complexity.
It is therefore essential that you use theory to inform practice (apply relevant theories and models to the assignment scenario) and critically evaluate these theories – what are the strengths and weaknesses, opposing arguments etc. You need to show an awareness and acknowledgement of their complexities and justify your suggestions and recommendations.
ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE:
Student Name:
Student Number:
PART ONE: Literature Review of Topic Chosen
Please state your topic here
Ensure you choose from the following four topics:
- 1. Differences in cultural values (i choose this one)
2. Culture shock and poor adjustment
3. Poor selection and development of potential expatriates (team members who will go to work abroad for extended periods).
4. A clash of work orientations and motivations
This section should be approximately 1500 words
PART TWO: Recommendations for Overcoming Cross Cultural Challenges
Choose THREE recommendations to help prevent the challenges from occurring.
This section should also draw on theory and include references to cross cultural management literature.
This section should be approximately 1500 words
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