A Different View $($Scenario$)$

Michelina has spent the last year traveling to different facilities for her company. She visited factories in Mexico and Thailand, a finance operation in Singapore, a pearl

company in Japan, and many other venues. She now has collected her thoughts about the various places she visited.

In Venezuela Michelina found that people tended to show great deference toward their superiors. When meeting with one higher$-$up$,$ she noticed that the local

managers seemed to exhibit extremely deferential behavior. How would you characterize this trait?