Question 1
Why would you want ethnocentric staffing of managers when you first start up an overseas location? When would you know it is time to make the upper management more poly-centric?
Question 2
What are at least three criteria you would use when assigning a manager to work in an overseas location?
What are three items you might advise them about before accepting the assignment?
Question 3
Why is it important to an upwardly mobile manager to have an overseas assignment in his/her career?
Question 4
Why is it important for managers of global organizations to know the different accounting practices in the countries where its foreign operations are domiciled? (3 reasons)
Question 5
Read "Brazil's Gol Airlines case on page 665 and answer the questions.