Peer Graded All Weeks - Business English for Cross-cultural Communication
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Week 5 Assignment 1
Applying cross cultural frameworks in cross cultural communication - mini-case analysis
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Karen Johnson works for a large American technology company, ABC Systems. The US firm has just acquired a small Korean chip manufacturer, Byeol Inc., from a large conglomerate and Karen was posted overseas to supervise the operation. She has previously been head of the hardware division at ABC Systems and this was her first foreign posting. Karen’s first goal upon her arrival was to get to know her team and deal with any issues they had with previous management under the conglomerate. She was keen to create an open and less bureaucratic working environment where problems and issues were discussed directly, similar to her experience at ABC Systems. The Byeol managers had heard that Karen wanted to streamline their operations to create a more efficient manufacturing process. They were afraid this objective might result in cost-cutting and job redundancies. They were also reluctant to communicate the low staff morale left over from the previous management that were due to salary levels and long working hours. Karen decided to change her communication strategy and arrange one on one meeting with her managers in order to encourage more open dialogue. She received mixed responses. In some cases, the situation was reported to be fine and in other cases, she heard that employees wanted better working conditions. She did not know who to believe and decided to communicate these issues in another team meeting. As she raised these issues, she was met with the same muted response from her managers. Her frustration was beginning to escalate.
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Week 5 Assignment 2
Applying cross cultural frameworks in cross cultural business negotiations and ethics - mini-case analysis
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Lucas Li spent most of his education and working life outside of Brazil. His father, Alex, wanted him to develop a global mindset, so he could realize growth on a global scale. Lucas spent his secondary school education in the UK and tertiary and post-graduate education in the USA. He worked for several years for a variety of clothes manufacturers and retailers of different sizes. He was ready to return to his birthplace by the time he reached 36. During his time working in the USA, Lucas experienced corporate cultures where problems and issues were openly and directly discussed. He preferred this style to the traditional hierarchical and paternalistic style his father had developed at Mundo. Lucas had plans to decentralize the decision making power in his family business where there would be less reliance on the CEO to give the approval for both business strategy and everyday operations. He wanted to give more power and responsibility to the senior managers to make decisions for everyday matters leaving more time for him to focus on taking the firm global. Flor Textile Co. Flor Textile Co. had been Mundo’s primary textile supplier for the past 20 years and its CEO, Felipe Ferreira, was also the cousin of Gabriel Marcos, Mundo’s COO. Alex Li had considered this to be an important relationship for the firm. He trusted Marcos to ensure Mundo were getting good prices on the textiles it was sourcing from Flor Textile. As Mundo’s operations rapidly grew in the last 10 years, it needed to source from several textile suppliers to maintain and control costs. Marcos was able to convince Alex Li to continue giving its business to Flor Textile despite little difference in costs by explaining that Flor’s quality was much better than other competitors. There was an element of truth in this, but Mr. Li suspected it was Marcos family connection with Flor which was the main reason. He accepted this as he did not want to damage the relationship that had lasted over two decades. Lucas Li, however, had different views. He had heard rumors that Marcos was receiving kickbacks for giving business to Flor in the form of holidays and gifts of luxury watches. Lucas thought this was unethical and wanted to open Mundo’s business to competitive bidding where he could achieve the best price for the firm’s textile supplies. Business negotiations with BEST Clothing Mundo and BEST clothing were about to begin negotiations that could mean Alex Li’s vision of developing global operations being realized. BEST clothing wanted to purchase clothing from Mundo to distribute to its retail outlets in America, and wanted to negotiate a 5 year deal that could be worth millions of dollars for Alex and Lucas Li’s family business. It could finally provide them the capital to expand to other markets. Lucas and Barry Smithers were anxious to complete the deal but Alex and Gabriel Marcos were more cautious and wanted to get to know Smithers before they could trust him to see through the deal. In their first informal meeting, Lucas had spoken out and disagreed with the prices that BEST clothing had offered. As a result, Alex had promptly requested his son keep silent and thanked Smithers for the offer. He told him that they were in no rush and further meetings would be needed to decide on the issues. As the meeting ended, Lucas also overheard Marcos speaking informally to Smithers about introducing him to his cousin at Flor Textile adding that Felipe Ferreira’s father in law, who worked for the government, might be able to help with BEST clothing’s objective of expanding into the Brazil market. Lucas was worried Marcos could be committing unethical practices again and wasn’t sure how to approach the issue. Lucas Li always knew that taking over his father’s company would not be easy, and even though his father was able to help him develop a global business mindset, he was having difficulties adapting to the business culture of his birthplace. Mundo was about to embark on a journey of change but Lucas was beginning to feel there would be quite a few cultural roadblocks ahead of him.
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Week 5 Assignment 1
Applying cross cultural frameworks in cross cultural communication - mini-case analysis
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Karen Johnson works for a large American technology company, ABC Systems. The US firm has just acquired a small Korean chip manufacturer, Byeol Inc., from a large conglomerate and Karen was posted overseas to supervise the operation. She has previously been head of the hardware division at ABC Systems and this was her first foreign posting. Karen’s first goal upon her arrival was to get to know her team and deal with any issues they had with previous management under the conglomerate. She was keen to create an open and less bureaucratic working environment where problems and issues were discussed directly, similar to her experience at ABC Systems. The Byeol managers had heard that Karen wanted to streamline their operations to create a more efficient manufacturing process. They were afraid this objective might result in cost-cutting and job redundancies. They were also reluctant to communicate the low staff morale left over from the previous management that were due to salary levels and long working hours. Karen decided to change her communication strategy and arrange one on one meeting with her managers in order to encourage more open dialogue. She received mixed responses. In some cases, the situation was reported to be fine and in other cases, she heard that employees wanted better working conditions. She did not know who to believe and decided to communicate these issues in another team meeting. As she raised these issues, she was met with the same muted response from her managers. Her frustration was beginning to escalate.
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Week 5 Assignment 2
Applying cross cultural frameworks in cross cultural business negotiations and ethics - mini-case analysis
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Lucas Li spent most of his education and working life outside of Brazil. His father, Alex, wanted him to develop a global mindset, so he could realize growth on a global scale. Lucas spent his secondary school education in the UK and tertiary and post-graduate education in the USA. He worked for several years for a variety of clothes manufacturers and retailers of different sizes. He was ready to return to his birthplace by the time he reached 36. During his time working in the USA, Lucas experienced corporate cultures where problems and issues were openly and directly discussed. He preferred this style to the traditional hierarchical and paternalistic style his father had developed at Mundo. Lucas had plans to decentralize the decision making power in his family business where there would be less reliance on the CEO to give the approval for both business strategy and everyday operations. He wanted to give more power and responsibility to the senior managers to make decisions for everyday matters leaving more time for him to focus on taking the firm global. Flor Textile Co. Flor Textile Co. had been Mundo’s primary textile supplier for the past 20 years and its CEO, Felipe Ferreira, was also the cousin of Gabriel Marcos, Mundo’s COO. Alex Li had considered this to be an important relationship for the firm. He trusted Marcos to ensure Mundo were getting good prices on the textiles it was sourcing from Flor Textile. As Mundo’s operations rapidly grew in the last 10 years, it needed to source from several textile suppliers to maintain and control costs. Marcos was able to convince Alex Li to continue giving its business to Flor Textile despite little difference in costs by explaining that Flor’s quality was much better than other competitors. There was an element of truth in this, but Mr. Li suspected it was Marcos family connection with Flor which was the main reason. He accepted this as he did not want to damage the relationship that had lasted over two decades. Lucas Li, however, had different views. He had heard rumors that Marcos was receiving kickbacks for giving business to Flor in the form of holidays and gifts of luxury watches. Lucas thought this was unethical and wanted to open Mundo’s business to competitive bidding where he could achieve the best price for the firm’s textile supplies. Business negotiations with BEST Clothing Mundo and BEST clothing were about to begin negotiations that could mean Alex Li’s vision of developing global operations being realized. BEST clothing wanted to purchase clothing from Mundo to distribute to its retail outlets in America, and wanted to negotiate a 5 year deal that could be worth millions of dollars for Alex and Lucas Li’s family business. It could finally provide them the capital to expand to other markets. Lucas and Barry Smithers were anxious to complete the deal but Alex and Gabriel Marcos were more cautious and wanted to get to know Smithers before they could trust him to see through the deal. In their first informal meeting, Lucas had spoken out and disagreed with the prices that BEST clothing had offered. As a result, Alex had promptly requested his son keep silent and thanked Smithers for the offer. He told him that they were in no rush and further meetings would be needed to decide on the issues. As the meeting ended, Lucas also overheard Marcos speaking informally to Smithers about introducing him to his cousin at Flor Textile adding that Felipe Ferreira’s father in law, who worked for the government, might be able to help with BEST clothing’s objective of expanding into the Brazil market. Lucas was worried Marcos could be committing unethical practices again and wasn’t sure how to approach the issue. Lucas Li always knew that taking over his father’s company would not be easy, and even though his father was able to help him develop a global business mindset, he was having difficulties adapting to the business culture of his birthplace. Mundo was about to embark on a journey of change but Lucas was beginning to feel there would be quite a few cultural roadblocks ahead of him.
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