Total mark: ________/15 3004IBA SEMINAR PREPARATION – NO REFERENCING NECESSARY Seminar week and time: Week 3 (Seminar 1), 11-11.50am Student name and ID number: Jayeshlin Naidu, s2943053 Case name: JOHANNES VAN DEN BOSCH SENDS AN EMAIL Goal of analysis: GET THE REQUESTED INFORMATION TO THE CLIENT IN A TIMELY MANNER; PREVENT LOSING THE CLIENT A. Case introduction (describe relevant case background and scope of analysis): The case is clearly about the email exchanges between both Johannes van den Bosch and his British client, Malcolm Smythe- Jones. However, his colleague at the Mexican City office was in charge of the dealings, hence the differences and the lack in communication. In this case, there is a matter of time …show more content…
The influence of stakeholders should realize that often mistakes are made by their employers, clients should also have resilience which would be beneficial in unfavorable events such as this. However there should be no reason for the stakeholder to ‘lash’ out to Van den Bosch. ____ / 3 ____ / 3 G. Design an effective solution to your most critical issue, justified with insights from your cultural analysis in F. Explain how your solution will make the achievement of the goal (see p. 1) possible. Explain how it will be handled by each key player and why the solution will be accepted by them (use conclusions from your cultural analysis described above to justify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed solution). ____ / 2 ____ / 2 H. Describe how are other critical issues (which you listed in B) perceived by each key player from their cultural perspective (explain using appropriate cultural dimensions): ____ / 1 ____ / 1 Presentation (formatting, spelling, grammar) --- MAXIMUM LENGTH: 3 pages
3. What are the particular challenges and dilemmas in managing relationships with those who have different cultural backgrounds and working styles from yours? How do you, personally, deal with such differences?
1. SONIK CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. ICI FIBRES LTD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. THE ARDEN COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. UNIPRO INC. . . . . . . . .
1. Describe the relationship between the cultural beliefs and biases identified in the map and the social issue, and provide specific examples to support your description. For example, you might describe how the relationship is positive, negative, or strained.
As mentioned in the introduction of the mini case, Hobby Horse Company, Inc. (HH) experienced a tough year in 2011. HH opened up a number of new stores but experienced a poor Christmas season. Christmas season is the biggest sale period for retail stores. As a result, bad Christmas sales performance played a big part of HH’s loss for year 2011. As we computed the financial ratios for HH, we can see the effects from new stores openings and poor sales performance.
2. Critical conversations – according to you, what are the three most divisive issues in our country? What types of conversations need to happen about these issues? Where are points of compromise? (500 words)
C. What is the origin/history of the social problem? Here you may want to look at origin and trend, if applicable. (5 marks)
Young Professional magazine was developed for a target audience of recent college graduates who are in their first 10 years in a business/professional career. In its two years of publication the magazine has been fairly successful. Now the publisher is interested in expanding the magazine’s advertising base. Potential advertisers continually ask about the demographics and interests of subscribers to Young Professional. To collect this information the magazine has commissioned a survey to develop a profile of its subscribers. The survey results will be used to help the magazine choose articles of interest and provide advertisers with a profile of subscribers. As a new employee of the magazine, you have been
a. Your approach to addressing the problem at hand (for example, specify the systems development life cycle or whatever approach you plan on taking).
Jules Kroll is planning to enter into the ratings industry. To determine whether it is a good idea and a good time for him to enter into the new business, we project the 5-year NPV for KBRA and apply SWOT analysis to KBRA. The 5-year projected NPV is $341.1 million, a positive number. It is a good time and a good idea for KBRA to enter the business. However, through our SWOT analysis, it would be difficult for KBRA to become competitive in a short time. Thus we suggest it add a credit rating division into the company to make attempts to it but not start up a
6. Describe the way in which cultural differences can act to impede communication between business people of different nationality.
Briefly describe possible solutions to the problem. To do this you must gather and interpret information to identify possible solutions.
Experts felt that one of the biggest challenges faced by MTV while launching MTV Arabia was the prevalent culture in the Arab world. Discuss the Arab culture. How is it expected to pose a challenge to MTV?
The second question asks What are the presenting problems? What do you think may be any underlying problems? Which of these underlying problems is most likely, in your view?
This event however, highlighted a weakness between the workforce and the managers of the company which could be the source of many problems in future. If workers in other plants, as result of the Kilmarnock/Glasgow incident assume that the company views them as disposable labour, not only could the company land themselves a demotivated workforce; which in turn could lead to 'shirking