You work for Mike, a global company that specializes in manufacturing and selling athletic shoes for both competition athletes and casual users. You are called into your supervisor’s office where he tells you that you have been assigned to be the leader of a virtual team. The team has been tasked with assessing the feasibility of the company manufacturing and marketing an inexpensive athletic shoe to be sold in Brazil. You will be responsible for getting the team up and running, maintaining open and clear lines of communications, and ultimately launching the product if it is found to be feasible.

Your supervisor hands you a list of the team members—twelve of them. Three work in the United States (two in Beaverton, Oregon, and one in New York City). Two work in England, two in China, two in India, and three in Brazil. All are Mike employees, and all were born in the country in which they work. All speak English, though some speak it better than others.

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Since you are the team’s leader, your supervisor has asked you to meet with the members. Answer the questions below pertaining to the team:

1. What challenges do you expect the team will face because of its multicultural makeup?
2. How can you help the team overcome these challenges?
3. What are the opportunities presented by the multicultural makeup of the team?
4. As a manager, would you have to consider different methods of motivating your multicultural team?
5. What challenges with the creation of a marketing plan do you expect?
6. Are there any legal and accounting challenges you predict in this global project?

1. Prepare a list of 10 interview questions to select a candidate for the position “marketing manager”. Please ensure that two behavioural, two situational, two job-knowledge, and two worker-requirements questions are included in this list of ten questions.

2. "A well-thought-out orientation program is essential for all new employees, whether they have experience or not." Explain why you agree or disagree with this statement. (word requirement: minimum 200 words)

3. Explain how you would conduct a job analysis. (word requirement: minimum 200 words)

4. Briefly describe each of the following possible types of interviews: unstructured panel interviews; structured sequential interviews; job-related structured interviews. (word requirement: minimum 200 words)

Goal: Your task is to prepare a business case for a new information system as described below.

A company that handles deliveries for other companies and individuals (you can use Yurtici or Aras Kargo as examples) considers to implement a new system for managing their trucks. Currently, the drivers get a fixed order of destinations, deliver the packages and get a signature on a paper slip. They hand in the slips in the evening to their manager. The manager checks against the orders, and approves that deliveries have been made. With the new system, the drivers have a hand-held device connected to traffic information, and an information system that changes the route dynamically to avoid traffic jams. Also the customers sign with a pen on the hand-held device, if a signature has been done, the delivery is marked as completed automatically.

You should try to identify all possible factors both for benefits and costs. In the business case, describe all of them, and try to quantify them, detailing how this quantification could have happened (actual numbers can be guessed at or made up, like for example hardware costs). Based on this quantification, aggregate the results for costs and benefits over an adequate time interval and give an overall assessment and recommendation. You can also include intangible benefits and strategic considerations in your final recommendation.

You will need to both create a professional proposal

What type of international strategy does General Motors use? Justify your answer. (Short Essay)

Identify a failed case of a foreign company which is UBER that operating in Thailand. why it failed.

(Long-essay) Included with

a) Background of this foreign firm;

b) Description of this foreign firm's business in Thailand.

c) Detailed analysis on the reasons why this firm failed. You'd better identify the specific reasons for this failure, such as poor market research, poor partnership; etc.

d) Conclusion part: You can summarize lessons that other foreign firms can learn from this case.

Describe a time when you fell into one of the decision-making traps (Overconfidence Bias,. Framing Bias, Anchoring Adjustment Bias etc.). How did you come to realize that you had made a poor decision, or at least not an optimal decision? In writing your main response, describe which decision-making trap is involved in your example, and write a definition in your own words of what that trap consists of. Add a final reflection in your main response to address which of the traps seems the most dangerous for decision makers, and why.

1. I would like you to find an expressive art that reflects what is happening in our culture today (include discussion on race, class, gender and ethnicity) analyzing the piece, performance or story.

Discuss the differences between economic value, social value, and the shared value creation framework? Under what circumstances would a company choose to focus on the creation of only one type of value over another?  Is it practical to focus on shared value creation, and why would a company and its stakeholders benefit from such a strategy?

1) Discuss how HRM can reduce risks related to terrorism.

2) Discuss international initiatives to criminalize foreign bribery.

What are the risks and benefits of outsourcing? How can outsourcing strengthen a company's business model and increase its profitability ?

Have a look at Whole Foods Market, the upscale grocery retailer. Go and explore the company and products at (official webiste of whole foods market). Take some time to learn about the types of products offered and the product information provided. The website is full of information about product lines, quality standards, safety standards, coupons, and more. Choose items of interest to you.

a) What unique pricing strategy has Whole Foods adopted in the food marketplace?

b) Relative to competitors, what is Whole Foods’ market position?

c) What is the unique “customer value” that Whole Foods delivers to its patrons?

d) Will Whole Foods be able to maintain the balance it is achieving in the price-value equation?

e) How can they charge what they charge?

f) How does the information provided on the website and in the stores add value to a consumer?