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1. Drawing on Hall's high and low contexts, describe some of the communication issues that might well arise when an Arab manager in a global company who has spent his career in the Middle East is sent on temporary assignment to Germany for a year to implement a process developed in one of the Middle Eastern production facilities.

2. Your company has a policy of no gift giving or accepting gifts. You are representing the company in negotiations in China for design of a multi-phased manufacturing facility. Discuss the role of gift giving you might expect in a culture such as China and how you plan to approach this issue.

3. You are a Mexican who has just accepted a short-term assignment in Ireland. What are some of the expectations you may have about Irish behavior, drawing on Hofstede's cultural dimensions?

4. If you had the choice of sending either a U.S. or Mexican businessperson to Japan for a three-year assignment, and both were equally qualified, why might sending the Mexican offer less risk on the culture side?

5. How could Trompenaars's universalism-particularism dimension be helpful in sorting out confusion over ethical behavior in a company's international division?

6. Give a short description of an example of Trompenaars's achievement-ascription dimension

7. If you were advising a French colleague on her first work assignment in your home culture, and she asked you what aspects of the material culture she should pay attention to, what advice would you give her?

8. Choose a nationality of a foreign worker found in your home environment and suggest what culture-related difficulties such a worker might experience in your culture.

9. How do you evaluate your own global mind-set levels?