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Read the article titled “Breaking Down the Ansoff Matrix”, located at http://www.atlbusinessjournal.com/?p=1481. In the article, the author discussed four (4) different types of product-market strategies: Market penetration, Market development, Product development, and Diversification. Select one (1 ) of these strategies that you would use for future growth of a business, and examine the main advantages and disadvantages of the selected strategy. Provide an example or scenario to support your response.
It is well known that diversification across a portfolio sometimes can be challenging. Propose one to two (1-2) overall diversification strategies that you would use in order to improve operating excellence. Provide a rationale for your response.
Determine the main factors that you believe are important for organizations to consider when evaluating trends and predicting the business environment in future years. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use this week’s reading material and make a prediction about one (1) company of your choice with regards to its external growth strategies (e.g., mergers, acquisitions, alliances, etc.). Justify your prediction using the techniques you have learned in this course.
1. Since June last year your company has been facing challenges in hiring plant workers at its electronic manufacturing plant in Guangzhou, China due to competitors’ increase in new manufacturing plants in the area. You have been assigned to head the HR department for the plant. Develop an HR plan outline to help address the issue. Provide rationale for your reasoning.
2. Examine the major benefits that companies experience from leveraging female expatriates. Review the key success factors and techniques used in the expatriate selection process in Exhibit 11.3 (Chapter 11). Recommend one (1) situation where it would be best for a company to leverage a female expatriate. Justify your response.
3. Imagine that your boss has just asked you to replace the plant manager of a medium-sized facility with 120 employees in South America. Propose one (1) theory of work motivation that you would use to motivate the employees of the plant in question in order to meet the goals of the company in that country. Provide a rationale for your response.
4. Imagine that you are taking a trip to visit a potential customer located in the selected country for three (3) days. For the first day, the president and executives of the company have asked to meet during the day to show you the plant and take you out for dinner and entertainment at night. You will be in meetings the first two (2) days. Your company will give you a corporate credit card and expect you to take the potential clients out on the third day for socializing. From the e-Activity, outline a seven (7)-point strategy for negotiating the business for your company while you socialize with the executives of the plant. Provide a rationale for your response.
5. Provide two (2) examples that demonstrate an increase or change in your own theories of global business management since the beginning of this course.