Globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues in Project Management Dennis G. Ballow‚ Sr.‚ MAED‚ PMP’ Project Management Knowledge Transfer‚ Inc. Abstract With hot topics like globalization and cross-cultural opportunities in the Asia Pacific rim‚ one might think it would be easy to research the implications of cross cultural issues. Rather‚ what the writer found was a significant discussion all around the periphery but little in-depth analysis. Discussion prevailed on the socio-economic and technological
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The road to hell 1.Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This case study analysis seeks to analyse the different impacts on Caribbean Bauxite following the resignation of Matthew Rennalls‚ successor to the position of production manager. Matthew cited cultural differences and John offensive racial comments for his resignation. Further‚ Matthew’s resignation came a day after his interview with John Baker‚ his direct superior. The analysis drew attention to the short-term‚ medium-term and long-term issues
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negative‚ or what Baker calls his racial consciousness. Baker thinks that Rennalls’ repressed sense of race consciousness prevented their relationship from being as close as it should have been. Baker‚ bothered by this‚ feels he needs to raise the issue and break-through the seams at the last meeting with his successor. Unfortunately‚ do to the lack of importance of communicating across cultures portrayed by Baker and his unawareness when it comes to his ladder of inference‚ Baker has unintentionally
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Description of the Case The case “Road to Hell” by Gareth Evans is a story of two characters with different backgrounds‚ personalities and points of view and how these two characters interact. John Baker is a successful western chief engineer of the Barracania’s branch of a multinational company. In the case it is mentioned that John Baker is an English expatriate‚ so we assume that he is white‚ possibly born in Canada. Baker thinks he has an edge in working in a foreign country because he
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Description The case “Road to Hell‚” by Gareth Evens shows a moment in time between the current chief engineer for the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania‚ John Barker as he prepares to leave for a new assignment and his predecessor‚ Matthew Rennalls. The case starts as John Barker‚ English expatriate‚ giving Matthew Rennalls‚ a Barracanian‚ his final interview before he leaves. John Barker has preconceived opinion that Matthew Rennalls is racist towards expatriates and is rude and unfriendly
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The Road To Hell (Case Analysis) I. Summary The case “The Road To Hell” is a story of two characters: John Baker‚ “an English expatriate and the chief engineer of the Caribbean Bauxite Company of Barracania in the West Indies” and Matthew Rennalls - a Barracanian and who is also Baker’s assistant and successor. Before relocating to another job as a production manager‚ John Baker conducted an interview with Matthew Rennalls to appoint him the chief engineer’s position and to solve a complaint
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The road to hell 1.Summary 2.Identification of the problem(s)/plight 2.1. The problem The main problem of this enterprise is that it is an American and west European company in an west Indies region. The racial problem is obvious. The man who is wanted to come in the front of this Barracania branch‚ Rennalls‚ has a lot of political influence ’ by being the son of the minister of finance and economic planning ’ and is also the most fit for the job ’ studied at London University where
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Description: This is a case involving two main characters from two different counties with differing points of view. John Baker‚ a European Chief Engineer‚ had been promoted to Production Manager in a new country and was preparing his successor‚ Matthew Rennalls‚ a Barracanian to replace him. Rennalls was known as being very intelligent‚ one of the brightest Barracanian’s and the son of the minister of finance and economic planning. The succession phase including a transition of meetings‚ interviews
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Problem Statement: Infinite is so far serving the requirements across the cross cultural environments and has the need to manage this rapid globalization and Cross-Cultural Issues within the company for International Projects in order to minimize its adverse effect on the organization. In the company the Software development efforts are being led by the Project Managers and Program Managers who are responsible for all the dealings with the clients and Team Management where the Team is geographically
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holding assistant engineering position in the company and also Baker’s successor because he received a complaint from Mr. Jackson‚ one of the European employees; that Rennalls had been rude to him. Baker’s interview with Rennalls was to talk about this issue and tried to solve it. In the interview‚ Baker brought up what achievements Rennalls made to the company and towards himself. Baker and company have high expectation on Rennalls that he has high potential to hold higher position in the company in
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