Portfolio Activity
Assignment instructions
After reading the article, Elaborate on the relationship between cultural intelligence and the expatriates’ cross-cultural adaptation, provide answers to the questions below.
Discuss the role of cultural intelligence in the cross-cultural adaptations of expatriates. Explain how cognitive, motivational, and behavioral dimensions of cultural intelligence affect the cross-cultural adaptation of individuals using examples.
According to Daher, N. (2019), Cultural awareness and adaptation lead to favorable outcomes for global professionals and their organization. Do you agree or disagree? Justify your answer with supporting arguments and examples.
Suppose you work for a food company that supplies sauces and spices for restaurant chains like KFC and McDonald’s. Your organization, which is based in India, is planning to expand and set up a new production plant in Louisville, Kentucky, USA as it would increase the scope of the business and reduce the cost of logistics. This project requires you to select, develop and lead a team of 5 experts who would be deputed to the new location for five years. Your organization has already screened the top 20 employees who could be suitable for this task.
What would be your strategy to do this task.
What are the major cultural-related challenges that you anticipate for yourself and your team members during your tenure in Kentucky? After selecting the team members, how would you prepare them for expatriation?
Provide details and examples.
Submission Instructions
Write the questions before your answer.
Your submission should be a minimum of 750 words and not more than 1500 words.
Support your arguments with sources and evidence. Use high-quality, credible, relevant sources to develop ideas that are appropriate for the discipline and genre of writing.
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