Top management incorporate organization's attitude toward diversity, allocate proper funding.
Organizational assessment is evaluating workforce, culture, policies, and practices in areas such as recruitment, promotions, benefits, and compensation
Attract employees is recruitment, accommodating work/family needs, alternative work arrangements
Train employees is awareness building, skill building
Retaining employees is support groups, mentoring, career development and promotion
European Union - goods, services, capital, and human resources flows across nations
Asia - Japan was dominant last century, China is now America's largest trade partner
Americas - NAFTA, economic pack for US, Canada and Mexico
GATT-General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs
WTO-World Trade Agreement
EU- European Union
Anger at Globalization? -
Brexit (British Exit) was formed in 1957, grew to 28 nations by 2013, open markets for 340 million people: failure to service domestic interests, loss of national identity, euro currency,
Brexit - britain pulling out of the EU vote to pull out 52 - 48
syrian refugee crisis
June 2016 Referendum
52% Brittons in Favor
Brexit Schedule: beings march 2017, ends march 2019
NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement
ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Expatriates - sending personnel to host country, can be expensive, unsecure and stressful;
inpatriate - foreign national brought in to work at the parent company
Host country nationals - available and cost less, familiar with host country language and culture
Third country nationals - soften political tensions, compromise solution
Expatriate failure rate - reduced by clearly structured assignments, clear job objectives
Global manager skills - flexibility, emotional stability, empathy, communication, diplomacy
Culture shock - disorientation and stress with being in a foreign environment.
Hofstede's dimensions - power distance, individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity
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Taller than the average person (psychologically becomes "look up" to that person)
Able to hold your liquor (Management=social=drinking) also, (drink with the best of them but stay -more- sober when others are not)
Past achievements in athletics (athletics are taught traits to be a leader=theory y) also, (theory x=survival of the fittest)
Know a language others don't understand (uses big words that others cant understand)
Emotionless= necessary (you can have emotions but you can never show them, crying makes you weak and no one wants a weak leader)
Which of the following statements regarding intelligence is accurate?
a. One's intelligence is the strongest predictor of leadership performance.
b. People with high mental abilities are more likely to be viewed as leaders in their environment.
c. Effective leaders tend to have high emotional intelligence, but mental intelligence has no effect on leadership effectiveness.
d. EQ matters for entry into the high level managerial ranks, but once there, EQ is less effective since all others at that level also possess high EQ.