Instructions to Assignment #9

Final Project – Advance Notification 

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Instructions

 Final Project – Advance Notification

 Please begin working on the Final Project. This project requires research, imagination, and logic in applying the content of this course and books.  Create an imaginary company that you have been operating in the domestic arena for some time.  Your company has decided it is time to go international.

  1. Describe your company and its operations, relative size, and so forth. Give reasons for your decision to go international.
  2. Decide on an appropriate country in which to operate, and give your rational for this choice.
  3. State your planned entry strategy, and give your reasons for this strategy.
  4. Describe the environment in which you will operate, and the critical factors that you must consider and how they will affect your company.
  5. Give a cultural profile of the local area in which you will be operating. What are the workers going to be like?  What kind of reception do you anticipate from local governments, suppliers, distributors, and so on?
  6. Draw up an organization chart showing the company and its overseas operations, and describe why you have chosen this structure.
  7. Decide on the staffing policy you will use for top-level managers, and give your rationale for this policy.
  8. Describe the kinds of leadership and motivational systems you think will be most effective in this environment. Give your rationale.
  9. Discuss the kinds of communication problems your managers might face in the host-country working environment. How should they prepare for and deal with them?
  10. Explain any special control issues that concern you for this overseas operation. How do you plan to deal with them?
  11. Identify the concerns of the host country and the local community regarding your operations there. What plans do you have to deal with their concerns and to ensure a long-term cooperative relationship?

Write in complete sentences and use good grammar, double-spacing, 12 point font, with one inch margins. Be sure to cite your resources and provide the references using APA 6th ed. format.  Remember to reference all work cited or quoted by the text authors.  The advance notification must consist of three sections and include Summary, Conclusion, and References.

Please provide a brief conclusion.

Special Requirements

  • All in-text citations (directly or not directly quoting the material) must include author’s last name, the year of publication, page number, and para number.  Do not make them up because I will check them. 
  • A complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.  I will not accept the paper without in-text citation page number and paragraph number.
  • Also, remember that you should have 75% of your references published within the last 10 yrs.
  • Avoid writing in the first person when writing in APA formatting.
  • Avoid writing in passive voice.
  • The idea that you cite in the paper must match with the content of the textbook or journal.
  • Use journals, textbooks, and websites