|Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea | |INBS 520 – Managing Global Workforce | | | |Ellen Moore‚ a co-senior consultant‚ is assigned to work in Korea and lead a project | |with her Korean counterpart Jack. Being a woman and having no experience with the | |Korean culture puts her at an early disadvantage which
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Ellen Moore. Living and working in Korea The case of Ellen Moore is very interesting and diverse‚ because it shows different reasons why problems can occur in a project management and teamwork and highlights how cultural differences can affect the work in a very negative way. There are several reasons why the project has run into problems. Some of these could have been foreseen but some not. The main problem is that there were wrong decisions made when creating the team and also some risks
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Case Study Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea Carman Ka Man Leung 3924137 Operations Management 357 9th May 2008 Executive Summary A Systems Consulting Group (SCG) Consultant‚ Ellen Moore‚ was sent to South Korea as a project management representative for a Systems Implementation (SI) project involving forty Korean consultants and a SI team. Joint Venture Inc. (JVI)‚ formed between Korean Conglomerate Inc. (KCI) AND Western Systems Inc. (WSI) was to implement the recommended systems
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Question 1: What are the problems in this case? 1. Elllen’s female identity made her an alienated participant in the work place in Korea‚ whose culture is dominantly masculine. The acceptance of her came in and took responsibility as the senior member of the project was early based on a compromise of her obtaining of required skills‚ however‚ her identity as a female was constantly reemphasized in the company’s social events. 2. Ellen and Jack were both initially appointed as the co-manager to
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Case Memo for Living and Working in Korea Problem Statement After Ellen been in Korea for a certain time‚ she found out that the Korean consultants were less experienced than expected. Besides that‚ tensions arose between her and the co-manager - Jack‚ regarding who was given directions to the team and they escalated when the project fell behind schedule. At the same time‚ the Korean Mr. Song is blaming Ellen should be accountable for all problems‚ and Andrew needs to decide how to proceed so
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Ellen Moore trata de gestionar un proyecto de consultoría en Corea del Sur. Ella es una experimentada‚ pero algo ingenua‚ gerente internacional que hace serios intentos de encajar en una cultura diferente. Sin embargo ella parece haber encontrado un problema en Corea y no está claro lo que le está saliendo mal y por qué. just a case of interpreting others actions‚ it is also a case on creating the situations through interactions among the Koreans and the North Americans over time. It is easy
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Ellen Moore has been assigned to a project in South Korea. The project is a joint venture (JVI) between Western Systems Inc. (WSI)‚ a North American company and Korean Conglomerate Inc. (KCI)‚ a Korean company. Ellen was chosen to run the project on behalf of Andrew Kilpatrick‚ who is part of the System Consulting group at WSI. Andrew was to manage the project on a part time basis from North America. He chose Ellen to lead project on site as a result of her strengths in project management.
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ELLEN MOORE: living and working in Korea This case deals with the settlement of a female American consultant in South Korea as project manager and she has to face different problem coming from the different culture and custom. Ellen is a hard-working woman who already has an international and cross-cultural experience in Bahrain as project coordinator before she join WSI working for SGC. After two successful projects in America‚ she was approached for the project in South Korea. Moreover‚ since
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Conflicts Analysis The troubled situation of JVC can be attributed to the major conflict between Ellen and Jack‚ causing another aggravating conflict occurred consequently. a. The major conflict was between Ellen Moore and Jack Kim‚ with the following symptoms: - They had controversial issues "during the first few weeks because they were clearly stepping upon each other’s territory". Ellen understood that she was the co-project manager with Jack‚ but Jack believed that he was the sole project
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1. What would you advise Ellen to do and why? What should be her objectives? Are there objectives and actions consistent with what you would do if you were in her situation? Even though Bahrain tended to be more progressive than many Middle Eastern countries in its attitude toward women‚ there were still many inequalities between genders. The current situation is that Ellen’s general manager asked her to change her mind about accepting the Account controlling position because of discriminatory practices
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