Stereotypes Between Todd And Trompenaars

A company’s department is being outsourced and that leads to Todd’s placement in the company’s outsourced call center in India, where he has to train his replacement Puro. During the first days of his stay he faces difficulties not only understanding and adapting to the new culture surrounding him but also getting his new trainees work according to the criteria of their American customers. As the time passes his ‘’resistance’’ is reduced and becomes more and more involved with the local community by experiencing events such as Holi festival and eating with the locals and at the same time he observes an improvement in the results at the call center. Meanwhile a romantic relationship is growing between Todd and his best employee, Asha which leads to his complete adjustment but also to the MPI dropping to six and him
By the time Todd’s boss Dave gets into town, the call center faces some technical issues but still manages to keep up the good results and when they go out to celebrate Dave shares the news with Todd about the swift of the department in China. To what extent could the stereotypes appearing in the film be interpreted with Trompenaars’ models and to which of his four diversity cultures each country belongs?
The film ‘’Outsourced’’ is an excellent example of a comparison between two very different cultures such as East’s and West’s as seen through the eyes of an American filmmaker. In this production, the viewer has the chance to see numerous stereotypes for both cultures and how they clash when interacting with each other. Stereotypes are conventional, oversimplified images that people have, which may or may not be true. At the beginning of the film, the main character, Todd,