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Human Resource Strategy Formulation Implementation And Impact 2nd Edition Bjarne Stroustrup - Solutions
The global recession slowed down Tesco’s plans for expansion. Why might Tesco have been more harmed by the recession than Walmart?
How easy (or hard) would it be for rivals like Walmart or Carrefour to adopt Tesco’s data management techniques?
What is the basis of Tesco’s success?
What types of information are particularly important to an international firm?
List 10 products you use for which quality is important in your purchasing decision. Which countries, if any, have reputations (good or bad) for each of these particular products?
Why are services most closely associated with developed, industrialized economies?
What are the basic similarities and differences between production management and service operations management?
How do each of the basic business strategies(differentiation, cost leadership, and focus) relate to operations management?
How are a firm’s strategy and operations management interrelated?
How does international operations management relate to international marketing (discussed in Chapter16 )?
Why is it important for organizations to control productivity?
What basic factors must be addressed when managing international service operations?
What basic set of factors must a firm consider when selecting a location for a production facility?
What is supply chain management? What is vertical integration?
How do production management and service operations management differ?
How does a firm’s corporate strategy affect its operations management?
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
Why do you think that sophisticated and effective multinational firms still occasionally make mistakes in their international marketing efforts?
Discuss how international marketing relates to international strategy.
What does this case illustrate about the trade-offs between economic and social benefits in international business?
Visit www.novica.com and www.unilever.com.Compare and contrast the two sites in terms of their marketing effectiveness.
Could other businesses follow the basic model employed by Novica? Why or why not?
What is the difference between international marketing and international community building? In what ways, if any, do these differences matter?
What are some basic differences you might expect to see in TV ads broadcast in France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States?
The ethnocentric approach and the geocentric approach both suggest standardization of the marketing mix. What is the difference between these two approaches, if both lead to standardization?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each pricing policy? Why do most international firms use market pricing?
What are the pros and cons of trying to use a single brand name in different markets, as opposed to creating unique brand names for various markets?
How do legal, cultural, and economic factors in your home country affect product policy for foreign firms?
Identify several products you think could be marketed in a variety of foreign markets with little customization. Identify other products that clearly would require customization.
What are the similarities and differences between domestic and international marketing?
What is a distribution channel? What options does an international firm have in developing its channels?
What are some of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in international advertising?
What are the problems that a firm using market pricing might encounter?
What are the three basic pricing policies?
Why are brand names an important marketing tool for international business?
How do legal, cultural, and economic factors influence product policy?
What are the basic factors involved in deciding whether to use standardization or customization?
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
How might attitudes, motivation, and leadership affect one another in organizational settings?
Describe how you might use the “Big Five” personality traits when forming a cross-cultural project team.
Describe how leaders at Toyota have made major decisions. Which approach to decision making best reflects their approach?
Discuss how Akio Toyoda approached the role of leadership.
Describe the role that motivation has played at Toyota before and after the changes in its strategic goals.
Can you speculate about the personality traits that personify Fujio Cho and Katsuaki Watanabe?
What other forms of advance preparation might a manager need to undertake before negotiating with someone from another country?
How easy or difficult is it to model the behavior of someone from another country?
Assume that you are leading a team composed of representatives from British, Mexican, Brazilian, and Egyptian subsidiaries of your firm. The team must make several major decisions.a. What guidelines might you develop for yourself for leading the team through its decision making process?b. What
What advice would you give a Japanese, an Australian, and an Italian manager just transferred to the United States?
How do motivation and leadership affect corporate culture?
Do you think it will ever be possible to develop a motivation framework that is applicable in all cultures? Why or why not?
How might organizations in different cultures go about trying to enhance leadership capabilities?
How might perception affect motivation in different cultures?
Assume that you have just been transferred by your company to a new facility in a foreign location. Which of your own personal dimensions do you think will be most effective in helping you deal with this new situation? Does your answer depend on which country you’re sent to?
Think of two or three personality traits that you believe are especially strong in your culture, and two or three that are especially weak. Relate these to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions.
Which do you think is a more powerful determinant of human behavior—cultural factors or individual differences?
Why are teams so important? What are the basic implications of teams for an international business?
Summarize the steps in the normative model of decision making and relate each to international business.
How do needs and values differ in different cultures?
Identify some of the basic issues managers must confront when attempting to motivate employees in different cultures.
Discuss stress and how it varies across cultures.
Explain how attitudes and perception can affect each other.
Discuss the basic perceptual process and note how it differs across cultures.
Explain how attitudes vary across cultures.
Define personality and explain how personality differences affect individual behavior.
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
What is the role of national culture in organization design? That is, if there are commonalities within the organization designs of U.S. multinationals, to what extent is this a function of the fact that they are U.S. companies?
Organization design and control are related management functions but each is also an independent set of activities. Develop a detailed explanation of their interconnectedness. Then, relate both organization design and control to international strategic management.
How do you think the control function should be organized and managed at Anglo American?
Identify the basic control issues at Anglo American.
What criteria most logically determine whether a new organization design can be judged to be successful?
What basic elements of organization design were changed? What elements were probably not changed?
Identify the basic organization design issues at Anglo American.
What additional information would have made it easier for you to develop a new organization design for Unipro?
What do you see as the biggest advantages and disadvantages of your group’s organization design?
How is your group’s organization design similar to and different from those of other groups?
Which control techniques are most likely to be tailored to international settings? Which can be merely extensions of domestic operations?
Which form of control system would you most and least prefer for your own work? Why?
Do you think the three common types of international organizational control are mutually exclusive? Why or why not?
Why is control an important management function in international business?
Why is a global matrix design almost always transitional in nature?
How do the global product, area, functional, and customer approaches to organization design differ? How are they similar?
Do managers of international firms need to approach organization design differently from their counterparts in domestic firms? Why or why not?
If a new organization starts out with a global perspective, will it necessarily experience any of the initial impacts of international activity on organization design? Why or why not?
What are the four basic steps in establishing an international control system?
Why is financial control so important?
What are the three levels of control in international business?
What is the global matrix design? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
What is the global customer design? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
What is the global functional design? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
What is the global area design? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
What is the global product design? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
What are some of the initial impacts of international activity on organization design?
MyLab Management Only—comprehensive writing assignment for this chapter.
What factors should a firm consider in selecting a strategic alliance partner?
What are the three primary means by which JVs can be managed? What are the advantages and disadvantages of these three approaches?
What could Danone have done to avoid the problems it encountered in China and India?
Now consider Danone’s JV in China. What were the benefits of this JV to each of these companies? Why did each choose to participate in the JV?
From the perspective of each of the partners, are there any potential pitfalls to joining this JV?
Grameen Danone is a JV between two companies—the nonprofit Grameen Group and the for-profit Groupe Danone SA. What are the benefits of this JV to each of these companies?Why did each choose to participate in the JV?
Determine and discuss the degree of agreement or disagreement among the various groups in the class.
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