Culture-Specific Preferences in International Business Context | Literature Review

1Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding

·Identify culture specific preferences in international business context and develop appropriate rapport management strategies.

2Demonstrate the following skills and abilities

·Demonstrate to cultural differences in impression management and ethical considerations in international management.

What am I required to do in this assignment?

A literature review: You are asked to demonstrate your knowledge of concepts, theories and ideas relevant to this unit by identifying cultural regularity and variability and apply these to frameworks in international business management (worth 40% of total mark)

SEM 1

·How does an unequal distribution of power impacts managerial approaches? Justify and critically evaluate your answers.

·What style of persuasion is valued the most by your culture and how that style impacts how people work in your country. Justify and critically evaluate your answers.

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)

In order to pass Assessment 1 you will need to:

·Demonstrate your understanding of different cultural dimensions of regularity and variability and produce frameworks to investigate the impact of culture on international business.

·Evaluate different strategies used in international business context in managing cross cultural situations in the workplace.

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?

We will be filling this section in together in class on Click or tap to enter a date. make sure you have downloaded/printed out the Assignment Brief and bring it to the session with you.

How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?

This assessment provides a grounding in the intercultural frameworks relevant to international business environment.  Mainly it will involve frameworks related to communication, homogeneity versus diversity, tradition and change, dimensions of culture and so on. The frameworks are discussed in scheduled classes.

Piecemeal knowledge of relevant theories and concepts. Some noticeable misunderstandings and/or inaccuracies. Rather confused focus that quite often strays from the topic. Limited discussion of concepts and issues.

Limited analysis. Lacks enough evidence based argument. Limited reference to theory and/or practice or used inappropriately. Statements of ‘fact’ and personal belief insufficiently reinforced by citations from appropriate third-party sources, research and relevant literature.

Though the discussion presented is reasonably systematic, there are improvements that the student should have implemented, for example, over-long and discursive sections/paragraphs or too short and fragmented sections/paragraphs which render some pages un-reader-friendly. There is scope for the work to be better organised.