You will examine areas of potential diversity, develop a plan for managing diversity, assess issues associated with managing a multicultural virtual team, compare and contrast roles of women, develop a plan for training expatriates, analyze potential for capitalizing on synergy, and select a management strategy.
You have been working on an organization for your course project and should have done considerable research to complete the first two parts of the project. Continue to use the company you selected to complete this part of the course project.
Company: Amazon (Use this company)
You will examine areas of potential diversity, develop a plan for managing diversity, assess issues associated with managing a multicultural virtual team, compare and contrast roles of women, develop a plan for training expatriates, analyze potential for capitalizing on synergy, and select a management strategy.
You will need to select one host country where the company operates to compare with the home country.
Prepare a report on the following topics:
Evaluate three areas of potential diversity between the home country and host country. What is the company’s policy on diversity? As the leader, develop a plan for managing the areas of diversity.
You are in charge of leading a multicultural virtual team of employees in the home and host country. Assess team conflict, collaboration, and trust in multicultural virtual team. How will you manage the issues and empower your team?
Compare and contrast the role of women in leadership positions in the home and host countries of the organization selected.
Using the lectures, assigned reading, and research, construct a brief plan of how you would conduct training to prepare a manager in the home country for his or her new assignment in the host country.
Analyze the situations in which the organization can capitalize on synergy in the workplace.
Select one of the five cross-cultural management strategies from the Week 5 lectures. (See below). Apply the strategy to your organization, justifying why you selected the strategy.
· Cultural Dominance occurs when one organization is more dominant than the other is. The dominant organization conducts operations in a status quo type of format, usually when they perceive the situation involves a fundamental ethical issue.
· Cultural Accommodation is the opposite of cultural dominance. International leaders imitate the host culture in an attempt to blend in. The fear of failure is a negative effect of this strategy. A positive effect could be the ability to conduct business using different languages and currencies.
· Cultural Compromise combines the two strategies of cultural dominance and cultural accommodation. The dominant organization usually has fewer adaptation burdens; however, both organizations must concede.
· Cultural Avoidance involves conducting operations as if a conflict within cultures exists. The intended outcome of this strategy is to maintain a good image and is used when unresolved issues are deemed less important than the outcome.
· Cultural Synergy occurs when both the dominant and subordinate organizations are committed to resolving problems. Increase in available options and problem-solving techniques are the positive effects of this strategy.
Submission Details:
Submit your paper as a 6- to 8-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.
· Due by 2/10/25 at 11:00pm CST
Requirements:
1. Make certain to include in text citations from your course text in addition to your outside leadership resources within your main post. This adds credibility to your argument. [Textbook]: Lane, H. W., & Maznevski, M. (2014). International Management Behavior: Global and Sustainable Leadership (7th ed.). Hoboken, NY: Wiley. 978-1118527375
2. No plagiarism will be tolerated. Must be in 7th Edition APA format with cited sources within the last 5 years.
3. No AI support, score must be 0% and less than < 10% score on Turnitin
