Assignment questions (words 1200 minimun, excluding references)
Use these content theories to answer the following questions
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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- McClelland’s Theory of Needs
- Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory
Process theories
- Goal setting theory
- Expectancy theory
- Equity theory
Cultural frameworks- Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck Framework
- Hofstede’s Study
- Trompenaars’s dimensions
- GLOBE project
and one important cultural dimensions that are not included in those frameworks
- Tightness vs. looseness
Cross Culture Communication -
Direct vs. indirect communication styles
Q1: What are the key problems that Miller is facing? (Criteria 1, 4)
Q2: What contributed to the key issues you have identified? (Criteria 1, 2, 4)
- How did culture influence those issues? Critically apply cross-cultural management frameworks and concepts to analyse the key issues. Demonstrate a link between theory and practice by identifying specific examples from the case.
- Consider the international management context and integrate this into your analysis. Which factors in the industrial, organizational, managerial, interpersonal and/or personal domains contributed to the problem?
Q3: If you were Miller, what would you do to restore SIC to a growing profitable company? (Criteria 3, 4)
- Provide a detailed, well-reasoned action plan.
- In describing the proposed set of concrete actions, please be explicit about how you expect the actions to address the main issues identified earlier.
- Evaluate the feasibility of the recommendations. (Consider factors that might undermine the implementation of recommendations and provide justified and specific strategies for overcoming potential obstacles).