Question: Case: You are responsible for hiring a sales manager whose territory will include all of South America. You have narrowed your search to two people.

Case: You are responsible for hiring a sales manager whose territory will include all of South America. You have narrowed your search to two people. One is a citizen of Brazil who speaks Spanish and Portuguese but very little English. The second is a US citizen who speaks English and a little Spanish. Your product line necessitates that the sales manager hire two additional people in South America and personally call on customers in the different countries. Q3. Who would you hire and why? Please answer the question based on the sources of intercultural misunderstandings covered in class. Case: You are in a meeting in a subsidiary of A German company in the United States. The meeting has two German citizens who are living in the United States and three U.S. citizens all of whom are employees. You have been discussing the packaging of a new product and suddenly the two Germans begin speaking in German rather than English. You wait for a couple of minutes, become irritated. Q4. What would you do in this case? Provide explanation based on the dynamics of culture diagram covered in class

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