Assignment: Multicultural Familiarization Manual Project

Students will be developing a multicultural familiarization manual and a presentation. Many global organizations hire or have on staff a multicultural liaison officer. The responsibilities of these officers are to familiarize employees with local cultures, customs, basic information, communication, etc. The manual and presentation should be professional quality that would be appropriate in a professional, corporate setting.

You should use the following scenario to base your work: The company for which you work has decided to expand its production internationally. However, management is concerned with sending inexperienced employees to the selected country because of their limited knowledge of the culture and the societal practices, traditions, etc. Your supervisor mentions your name and notifies upper-management that you have taken global leadership courses at Western Kentucky University. Therefore, you are immediately nominated to research the country/culture and provide training for your coworkers, who may be asked to travel to the country for business purposes. You are assigned two tasks: 1) Develop a multicultural familiarization packet that the employee can read, study and take on business trips. 2) Create a presentation that coincides with the multicultural familiarization packet.

Task 1) The Multicultural Familiarization Paper

• Choose one of the following countries to research: Greece; Germany; Spain; France; Mexico; Brazil; Argentina; Chile; Egypt; Qatar; India; Nigeria; China; Taiwan; Korea; Japan; Australia; or New Zealand.

• Provide a brief background on the country including sections on the following: Geography, Environment, Monies (currency), Agriculture (food, clothing, shelter), Ethnicities, Education, Health, Government (current leaders; interesting laws), Economy, and Literacy. CIA fact book is an excellent, creditable source to get the latest facts.

• Provide sections on the following key items needed for the employees: Leadership styles utilized, etiquettes, image management, appropriate dress for meetings, negotiation techniques that should be used, communication techniques (decision making strategies, problem solving and conflict management). Educate your coworkers on things they should avoid (phrases, hand gestures, etc.).

• Consider the CQ Four-Dimensional Model: Drive, Knowledge, Strategy, and Action. How would use this model to prepare the employees for the new culture.

• Create a section describing one leadership theory studied during the course of this semester. For example, China's leadership style used authoritarian leadership by...

• Cite all sources, minimum of 5 primary sources.

• Be creative in your layout, use photos, graphs, and quotes. This does not necessarily look like a traditional paper.

300 points

1. This manual is not necessarily in strict APA formatting, where no APA title page is required. Example is provided to help you. Use APA style (cite all sources within the text) in designing your manual, Times New Roman, 12-pitch font, double spaced, one inch margins top, bottom and sides, and proper grammar. The total length of this analysis is 15-20 pages of written text. 15 points

2. Students must cite fiveprimary sources.. A primary source is a book on that topic, an article out of an academic journal (Newsweek, US New and World Report, Time, etc. are NOT academic journals) or another written essay on that topic. 25 points

3. Students evaluate their country: identifying etiquettes, image management, appropriated dress, negotiation, communication (decision making, problem solving and managing conflict). 60 points

4. Include a brief background, geography, environment, monies, agriculture, ethnicities, education, health, government, economy, and literacy. CIA fact book is an excellent, credible source to get the latest facts. 50 points

4. Students must describe how their society illustrated one leadership theories studied during the course of this semester. For example, China's leadership style used authoritarian leadership by... This analysis should take approximately one page for the theory. 70 points

5. Consider the CQ Four-Dimensional Model: Drive, Knowledge, Strategy, and Action. How would use this model to prepare the employees for the new culture. 60 points

6. Overall impression, creativity. 20 points

Multicultural Familiarization Presentation.

• Create a PowerPoint presentation, Digital Storytelling presentation, Prezi, or video

• Ensure it is visually pleasing. Slides should have key points not paragraphs. Creativity is key. Think outside the box. Minimum of 5-8 minutes for video and minimum of 15 slides + 1 reference slide.