Unit 10 Assignment: Global Team Acclimatization
The following Course Outcome is assessed in this Assignment:
MT203-5: Apply cultural literacy in personal and professional environments.
Assignment
Introduction:
Cultural literacy is critically important when it comes to sending
personnel overseas to live and work. If there are family members also
moving overseas, their adaptation to the new environment may affect the
employee’s ability to perform successfully abroad.
Read the scenario and then address the checklist items.
Scenario:
Jorge,
as the global team manager, was hired to manage some new global teams
for AlternativeSource Inc. (ASI), an alternative-energy company
implementing wind, solar, and water-generated energy systems throughout
the globe. Jorge had worked previously for a gas exploration company in
North America, so he simply hired many of his previous company’s
employees who had worked for him at the gas exploration company. Jorge
deployed the teams along with their families to work with Indian
nationals and clients in India. Since India is such a large country,
although there is some autonomy for the teams, all decisions were made
by Jorge and then subsequently communicated with the teams.
After
5 months in the field, the teams are not performing well. The team
members are frustrated by what they termed as internal conflicts and
“the clients’ lack of cooperation,†and their families seemed to be
unhappy in the new environment. The ASI executive management team is
beginning to ask questions not only regarding the team’s performance but
also regarding the hiring process used. ASI has an employee handbook
saying that the company hires people based on abilities from a diverse
pool of candidates that also represent their diversity of global
clients.
After completing your chapter reading and reviewing the
Learning Activity regarding culture and global human resource management
(HRM), address the following checklist items.
Checklist:
â— Describe the problems you discern in this situation from the brief facts provided.
â— Describe how the global teams in India are managed versus how they should be managed.
â— Apply global HRM concepts from your reading to the hiring of the teams.
â—
If you had been Jorge, how would you have applied all of the cultural
adaptation concepts from your Reading and Learning Activities areas that
would fit this scenario at the outset to help the team members and
their families be successful in adjusting to India?
Access the Unit 10 Assignment rubric.
Submit
your minimum 1½- to 2-page (i.e., 350–500 words) response in an
original essay with additional title and reference pages in APA format and citation style to the Unit 10 Assignment Dropbox.