When Parul, an Expatriate Manager for Castle Mfg

question 33

Multiple Choice

When Parul, an expatriate manager for Castle Mfg., went to work in the company's Thailand operations, she was often frustrated when her staff showed up thirty minutes late for meetings and did not have an explanation for their tardiness. She didn't understand why her staff in Thailand didn't behave like her staff had in the home office. According to Mendenhall and Oddou, an expatriate manager like Parul who tends to treat Thai nationals as if they were home-country nationals lacks the dimension of

• A) cultural toughness.
• B) self-orientation.
• C) power distance.
• D) perceptual ability.
• E) willingness to communicate.

---

Definitions:

Simp

A colloquial expression indicating someone who goes to great lengths to gain the favor of another, often ignoring their own dignity.

Add

To combine one or more numbers or values to get a sum or total.

Simp

A slang term often used to describe someone who performs excessive sympathy or attention towards another person, typically someone they're romantically interested in, often with nothing in return.

Simp

A method of reducing complexity by focusing on the most essential aspects of something to understand or explain it better.