Homework: Successful Domestic Company Goes Global!
Scenario
You are the CEO of a successful domestic company. Recently, many prospective clients in foreign countries have expressed a desire to conduct business with you. You know that in order for your company to grow, you will have to expand overseas. You recently attended a local three-day international trade exposition and have gathered many brochures on the foreign companies interested in doing business with your company.
After meeting with your executive committee, you decide that you will need to identify at least two countries for expansion and two expatriates to send into those countries. The selected expatriates will learn about the countries' cultures and business activities. You must prepare a report for the employees who may want to take an overseas homework, the executive committee, and the board of directors.
Prepare
Use the Internet and Strayer Library to research possible countries for expansion. Next, conduct research on leveraging expatriates over country nationals for business overseas. Finally, research texts that could help expatriates in their transition to working overseas.
Instructions
Note: You may make all assumptions needed to complete this homework.
Write an 8 to 10 pages paper in which you:
1) Create a guide to leveraging expatriates.
• The guide should include 4 to 6 sources that address benefits and challenges of sending expatriates to other countries.
2) Examine the major benefits that this report can provide for the organization.
• Suggest two uses for the information contained therein. Justify your response.
3) Analyze the major factors (distance, cultural background, knowledge of the related countries, languages spoken, relatives who may live in another country, etc.) that would influence your choice of countries into which your company would expand.
• Recommend two countries for expansion. Provide a rationale for your response.
4) Determine three criteria that you would consider when deciding which employees to send abroad. Justify your response.
5) Propose the major methods and/or incentives you would use to encourage the selected employees to become expatriates. Provide a rationale for your response.
6) Recommend one strategy to ensure that both the executive committee and the board of directors are committed to the expansions. Justify your response.
7) Recommend two texts that the selected expatriates should take overseas with them. Provide a rationale for your response.
a) Unacceptable
b) Needs Improvement
c) Competent
d) Exemplary
Format your homework 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 homework, 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.