Discuss the following:
Your objective is to prepare an American expatriate (and their family) for an assignment to a target country. Teams will be responsible for gathering and writing up the information on a specific country and then presenting some of that information to the rest of the class in a training session. The goal is to learn about a country in depth and figure out how to do business in that culture. Use credible, academic sources of information (not people from that country or tourist guides) and cite sources correctly using APA format. Each group will investigate the target country completely including the management practices in the country being studied and explain the management practices from a contextual framework.
The group will provide an analysis of the cultural environment. Care should be taken to first understand the culture by itself, without being concerned with its impact on management. Once this has been done, an investigation of management practices in the country being studied should be carried out. The group should indicate how the societal culture helps explain the business traditions and practices within the country being studied. Your team should also explain how the societal culture impacts management practices.
The final project must be a maximum of 20 pages typed; double-spaced; 12-point font; with one-inch margins on all sides. You should use paragraph form and NOT dot-point or outline styles. The final paper should also include an outline of the training session being conducted in class as an appendix.