Your company has recently entered into a cooperative venture with a Japanese firm. A team of Japanese engineers has come to your plant to teach your engineers a new manufacturing process. However, the senior member of this team, a Japanese engineer with very traditional cultural views, refuses to work with a female member of your team despite the fact that she is a highly qualified engineer. What should you do?
- Try to reason with the Japanese engineer, telling him that in your culture women are highly qualified and work side by side with men.
- Why are you recommending this?