INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

150 WORDS
Hofstede established a method to analyze and evaluate dimensional values of various cultures. Use this file to evaluate your own cultural values by using the dimensions established by Hofstede. Then, compare your values to other cultures (or countries). List the culture(s) (or country) that appears to be least compatible with your cultural values. As an international manager, briefly describe how you can use this information to facilitate communication and decisions.
Your response should include a completed evaluation of your cultural values, a culture, or cultures, that least resembles your values, and a brief description about how you can use the contrast in values to your advantage as an international manager. The brief description should be at least 150 words in length. Include your brief description at the end of the Hofstede Cultural Values worksheet. All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
Luthans, F., & Doh, J. P. (2012). International management: Culture, strategy, and behavior (8th ed.). New York, NY:
McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Unit IV Homework Assignment
150 WORDS
Prepare for Final Exam: This assignment will not be turned in for a grade, but it is significant for the preparation of your final exam.
This homework assignment will help to prepare for Final Exam. The Final Exam for this course asks you to examine a case study and to respond with summarizing analyses, recommendations, and a decision to support or decline an international opportunity.
Select one of the cases presented between pages 232 and 266 of Luthans and Doh (2012). The case
options include each of the following:

• Coca-Cola in India
• Danone’s Wrangle with Wahaha
• Euro Disneyland
• Beyond Tokyo: Disney’s Expansion in Asia
• Walmart’s Global Strategies

By selecting a case at about midway through the course, you have the opportunity to review and study a scenario relevant for international managers. Review the case and consider which details appear to be significant about the case. Keep your homework assignment, and review it and the case each week to prepare for the Final Exam. The goal is for you to be very familiar with the case. Studying ahead of time allows you to maximize the amount of time you have to prepare a written response to the case.
Select a case, review the case, and then prepare a Reflection Paper. Which details appear to be significant about the case?

Here are more details about a Reflection Paper. After you finish reading the case you select, reflect on the concepts and write about them. What do you understand completely? What did not qite make sense? The purpose of this assignment is to provide you with the opportunity to reflect on the case you finished reading and to expand upon those thoughts. If you are unclear about a concept, either read it again or ask your professor. Can you apply the concepts toward your career or your experiences? How?
This is not a summary. A Reflection Paper is an opportunity for you to express your thoughts about the material by writing about them.

The writing you submit must meet the following requirements:
• At least one page;
• Your thoughts about the main topics; and
• Additional thoughts about the case that will contribute to your Final Exam.

Format your Reflection Paper in your own words using APA style, and include citations and references as needed to avoid instances of plagiarism.
You will NOT be able to use the Reflection Paper during the Final Exam.

Luthans, F., & Doh, J. P. (2012). International management: Culture, strategy, and behavior (8th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.