International Business and Environment

• In 7 hours!!!! 
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• Watch the video for Chapter 3, titled “Communicating across Cultures” (3 min 47 s), 
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• http://www.cengage.com/management/webtutor/global2/video/ch03.html
• Use the Internet  to research articles on companies which implement corporate diversity awareness programs. Be prepared to discuss.

"Communicating across Cultures and Ethics Theories"  Please respond to the following:

• From the first e-Activity, suggest one (1) additional strategy geared toward improving communication among people with different cultural backgrounds within the same company. Provide a rationale to support your suggestion.
• From the second e-Activity, select one (1) corporate diversity awareness program, and examine the program in terms of its ability to integrate diverse cultures and norms within the company. Include one example of the chosen program’s successful integration of the diverse cultures and norms in question to support your examination.

Greetings class:

You can reply to the following question instead of one of the above two leading questions. You can also reply to all three questions if you wish.

Your company is trying to get a license from the government of a developing nation to establish a distributorship in that country. Your company knows that setting up distributorship brings many benefits to the country. It will provide jobs in an area where unemployment is high and including upgrading local employee skills. So far, the government officials with whom your company is negotiating has been non-committal, neither rejecting nor approving the request, but simply asking for more and more information. Your company has been told that building relationships are part of the culture to conduct businesses and are important in that country. If the daughter of the government official is hired as a consultant, she could use her influence to get the license application approved very quickly, to everyone’s betterment. What should your company do? Why or why not?