Assignment task: The product of the social, economic, and traditional cultures. Of course, each aspect influences how people conduct business, so each aspect has a reflection on the partnership that your company forms.
Learn about the different national infrastructural, cultural, and social aspects of off shoring projects. Suppose your company is planning to open offices in China.
Perform the following tasks as a group:
Research teams in the United States and China, and find similarities and differences between the U.S. and the Chinese everyday culture.
Analyze the cultural differences between business practices.
Pay particular attention to how the different national infrastructural, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of Chinese culture affect this country's business component.
Analyze the problems that would arise for a non-Chinese worker in China or a non-American worker in the United States, and provide solutions to the problems.
- A description of at least 3-5 similarities and differences between the U.S. and the Chinese everyday culture
- An analysis of the differences between the U.S. and Chinese business practices
- An analysis of how the different national infrastructural, social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of Chinese culture affect this country's businesses
- An analysis of the problems that would arise for a non-Chinese worker in China or a non-American worker in the United States and solutions to the problems