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Report informing on your Readiness to live/work in another country

ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

Write a progress report (in memo format) to your boss, informing her of what you have learned about ‘x’ country and your readiness to live/work in that country.

Assume your work for a company (you choose), and good news, you’ve been promoted to work and live in another country (you choose the country you want to research). You are now a classified as ‘expat.’ You leave in two months. Use the Harvard Business Review article ‘Three Keys to Getting an Overseas Assignment Right’ as your guide.

Cite in APA format.

Requirements

Your research base includes…

· Library research and library research experience with Mr. Steve Cramer, our business librarian.

· The Harvard Business Review article, “The Three Keys to Getting an Overseas Assignment Right” that is located in the readings on Cultural Communication folder on Blackboard.

· Reference section ‘Writing International Correspondence’ (page 343) in your text.

Research Considerations & Assigned Content

While content and its organization is your completeness decision, I recommend the following list of items to research (in random order.)

1. Introductions & Greetings

2. Visuals & symbols

3. Non-verbals – gestures, etc.

4. Unspoken behaviors

5. 3 principles listed in the article

6. Slang expressions and technical jargon

7. What we see – appearances, etc.

8. Language differences

9. Values

10. Thinking styles (see the Cultural Communication powerpoint)

11. Teamwork ‘rules’

12. Etiquette & gifts

13. Conclusion

14. Reference Page listing all the resources used

Writing Requirements

· Write in the direct approach – that means you are to state your recommendation (aka your ‘why,’ aka your ‘purpose’), in the first sentence.

· Include at least one table and refer to it.

· Have at least one cite from the HBR “The Three Keys…”

· Have a cite from the book ‘Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands.” The library is holding it in reserve for our class.

· Use no fillers or junk information. Be concise. Eliminate wordiness.

· As you would expect, this report is to nonverbally communicate professionalism.

· Use correct grammar and mechanics.

· Use excellent organization, resulting in excellent flow.

· Use headings and white space for professional polish and readability.

· Use standard margins and 10 font size, Tahoma font.

· Write in active strong business conversational language.

· Write in first person.