Answer both quesions provided below.
1. What type of teams are more likely to “need” cultural integration?
Answer this question and discuss how you would facilitate cultural integration within a team (Hint: Caliguiri suggests 5 strategies.)
QUESTION 2 – You are in the International Division at Costco and you are opening a new facility in CHINA. You have selected Joan Jett, one of your best store managers in California to be sent to China for 1 year to oversee the store opening operation and train local managers on how to work with the COSTCO supply and cost accounting systems.
Joan has a Husband and two children, a boy who is 13 and a girl who is 10. Her husband is a college professor and Costco has arranged for him to have a two semester assignment teaching at a local Chinese American School. Her family will accompany her on the trip.
Outline and briefly discuss how you would prepare Joan for this assignment. You should draw on the information from the HR material as well as the information about Asian Culture.
