You have been invited to deliver the keynote address at a local conference for businesspersons and companies on the topic “The Global Manager”. Your speech should include the roles and responsibilities of the global manager and the competencies required to be an effective global manager.

The fundamental challenge of managing the global enterprise is assessing, interpreting, and reconciling the competing imperatives to do everything the same way everywhere versus doing everything differently given different demands in different locations. This contest is the sine qua non of management—whether expressed here in terms integation versus responsiveness, or as you likely seen elsewhere, efficiency versus effectiveness, standardization versus customization, maximization versus optimization, mechanistic versus organic, universal versus local, and so on. No matter the product provided or markets served, managers must continually find ways to navigate this dilemma.   In Module 1, you interpreted this this issue in terms of the normative versus relativist ethical outlooks. Now, in Module 2, we look at this issue in terms of global integration versus responsiveness. Indeed, interpreting the tension between global integration and local responsiveness anchors and interpretation of…

Tesco in Japan and Asian markets Tesco decided to bring together a team of Asian managers who would visit and examine Tesco’s operations in the UK. As Tesco in-siders, they would be familiar with the company’s mission, values, processes, and procedures and thus would be able to feel at home in the store context; as outsiders in the UK, they could see things differently from the British managers, thereby bringing valuable home-country insights and sharing best practices that had evolved in their local markets. The project, “The Essence of Tesco,” had a two-pronged strategic purpose: (1) to determine what was and wasn’t working by conducting a health-check of Tesco UK’s current corporate state; and (2) to compare and contrast that state with what had evolved in Tesco’s Asian subsidiaries so as to learn from and leverage them globally. Tesco chose nine managers from six of its Asian subsidiaries: two each from Thailand, South Korea, and China—its largest Asian markets—and one each from…

When McDonalds, an American multinational corporation, entered the Chinese market, it faced many cross-cultural management challenges due to cultural differences. (a) In light of the above statement, explain the cultural differences between China and United States of America using Hofstede’s cultural values model. (b)You have been appointed as the new Regional Manager to oversee McDonalds operations in China. You are aware of the need to deal with cultural differences and to adapt to the Chinese culture. Explain the international strategies that you would implement for McDonalds in China in the management of its: product marketing                                                                                                workforce

Explain why it is important to balance the duties of the three groups of managers (Worldwide functional manager, National Subsidiary manager, Transnational managers) in charge of international business, global functions, and geographic region. Discuss why it is necessary to reconcile the responsibilities of the three groups of managers responsible for global business, worldwide functions, and geographic territory.

Based on the discussion on the four (4) key drivers that shape organisational and industrial global strategies as discussed in the course, which two would be most important to Peter based on the industry/sector he is operating in. You must include, two sub-factors under each of the drivers. Organizational examples must be included. Information from the scenario must be included to support the discussion. Please see attachment of four (4) key drivers that shape organisational and industrial global strategies and scenario

What are potential challenges a CEO may face in the future doing business on a global scale?

Based on the discussion on the four (4) key drivers that shape organisational and industrial global strategies, which two would be most important to Peter based on the industry/sector he is operating in. You must include, two sub-factors under each of the drivers. Organizational examples must be included. Information from the scenario must be included to support the discussion.   Please see attachment.

A fundamental challenge of managing the global enterprise is assessing, interpreting, and reconciling the competing imperatives to do everything the same way everywhere versus doing thing different in different locations due to different conditions. This contest is the sine qua non of management—whether expressed in terms of integration versus responsiveness, or as you likely have seen elsewhere, normative versus relativist, cost leadership versus differentiation, efficiency versus effectiveness, standardization versus customization, maximization versus optimization, mechanistic versus organic, universal versus local, and so on. No matter the product provided or markets served, managers must continually find ways to navigate this dilemma.  Quickly, to recap, global integration spurs managers ​to ​build the enterprise that sell​s​ the same thing, the same way, to everyone and anyone, here, there and everywhere. Managers, therefore, look to standardize any and all activities in order to…

From the following, please identify the 2 statements that are true as well as the 2 statements that are false.   A) Critics of globalization claim that increasing cross-national integration fortifies countries' sovereignty. B) International operations may increase operating risk by smoothing sales and profits. C) Foreign sources may give companies additional operating knowledge D) Although foreign external environmental differences are problematic, they must be weighed against domestic opportunities and risks.