Scenario - Sharon Cannon

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Scenario - Sharon Cannon
Sharon Cannon was an MBA student in Detroit, Michigan, with a managerial position at the Ford Motor Company plant. She was invited to join a company that had entered into a joint venture with a German firm to manage a Volkswagen plant. Sharon would be under contract for one year, with an option to renew for a total of three years. Her salary would be 350% more than she was currently earning, and she would be given two all-expenses paid vacations each year. The money and the benefits sounded very nice, but Sharon wasn't sure what the best choice would be.
-If she should decide to take the job, she will be most successful in a foreign assignment if she has:

• A) culture shock.
• B) cultural intelligence.
• C) linguistic pluralism.
• D) ethnocentrism.
• E) geocentrism.

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Definitions:

Monetary Rewards

Financial benefits given to individuals or groups as a form of compensation or incentive.

Fairness

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The state of being prepared to do something; readiness.

Functioning of Government

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