Assignent: Integrative Term Project
Length: 12 pages.
This project requires research, imagination, and logic in applying the content of this course and book.
Create a company name HOME FURNITURE INC. (Somewhat similar to IKEA) that you have been operating in the domestic arena for some time. Your group represents top management, and you have decided it is time to go international.
1. Describe your company and its operations, relative size, and so forth.
Give reasons for your decision to go international.
Decide on an appropriate country in which to operate and give your rationale (reason) for this choice.
2. State your planned entry strategy and give your reasons for this strategy.
3. Describe the environment in which you will operate and the critical operational factors that you must consider and how they will affect your company.
4. Give a cultural profile of the local area in which you will be operating.
What are the workers going to be like?
What kind of reception do you anticipate from local governments, suppliers, distributors, and so on?
5. Draw up an organization chart showing the company and its overseas operations and describe why you have chosen this structure.
6. Decide on the staffing policy you will use for top-level managers and give your rationale for this policy.
7. Describe the kinds of leadership and motivational systems you think would be most effective in this environment. Give your rationale.
8. Discuss the kinds of communication problems your manag ers might face in the host-country working environment.
How should they prepare for and deal with these problems?
Explain any special control issues for this overseas operation that concern you.
How do you plan to deal with them?
Identify the concerns of the host country and the local community regarding your operations there.
What plans do you have to deal with their concerns and to ensure a longterm cooperative relationship?
9. Written project should be completed with a powerpoint version with 12- 15 slides.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.