INT 113 Southern New Hampshire University South Africa Cultural Analysis HW 1. Use this discussion sample as a guide when completing your own analysis. Du

INT 113 Southern New Hampshire University South Africa Cultural Analysis HW 1. Use this discussion sample as a guide when completing your own analysis.

Due to the significant impact of culture in the business environment, use Hofstede’s compare countries resource to choose a country for your project and conduct a cultural analysis of your project country, using the resource to investigate the specific culture scores for Hofstede’s dimensions of culture. In this discussion, you will work on the following critical elements: Values and Communication and Business Etiquette.

Discuss Hofstede’s dimensions of culture that influence business in your project country.
Use The World Factbook and Commisceo Global Culture Guides to expand this further by identifying specific elements of communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
Finally, using Commisceo Global Culture Guides, identify five rules of business etiquette that would directly influence business interactions.

What risks or opportunities can you identify from this analysis of culture? Consider areas of management that can be adjusted when considering cultural drivers.

Respond to two of your classmates and make observations based on the information they provided. Work to include personal insight and research to supplement your classmates’ analyses.

Once you have received feedback from your peers and instructor, you will insert your data and summarize your analysis findings in the Final Project Presentation Template provided. Use the Final Project Guide to help you generate presentation ideas.

This is your second step toward the comprehensive final project presentation. Your first final project checkpoint submission will be in Module Three.

Note: You will not be able to see any of your peers’ discussion posts until you have created and posted your own discussion thread.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric document.

2. Use this discussion sample as a guide when completing your own analysis.

Begin by introducing yourself to the class and explaining your background.

Throughout this course, we will use the discussion topic in each module to work on the final project in a step-by-step manner. This gives you the opportunity to get feedback from your instructor and your peers while you work. Due to the nature of these discussion assignments, they are weighted more heavily than a typical course discussion and you will spend a majority of your time engaging in this topic.

Before we begin, you might want to complete the final project review for this module. Post any questions you have in the General Questions topic.

In this first discussion, you will choose a country, other than the USA or Turkey, that you would like to focus on for your final project, and work on the following critical elements: Rationale, Location, and Country Composition.

Share your country choice for the final project and the reasoning behind this decision. Next, visit the World Atlas and The World Factbook to begin collecting important geographic and demographic information on the region.

Share a map of the country in the discussion and identify the following elements:

Regional location
Water access
Bordering countries
Natural hazards or climate

Identify the following elements of the country:

Literacy rate
Rate of urbanization
Heavily populated cities
Major religions
Educational data
Age structure

Address the following questions based on your findings:

What opportunities do you see from this information?
What considerations would impact shipping, labor, or other operations?
Are there any risks?

Respond to two of your classmates by sharing your own observations on their chosen countries and asking questions to encourage other considerations.

Once you have received feedback from your peers and instructor, you will insert your data and summarize your analysis findings in the Final Project Presentation Template provided. A Final Project Guide is provided to offer some ideas on how you might present your information.

This is your first step toward the comprehensive final project presentation. Your first final project checkpoint submission will be in Module Three.

Note: You will not be able to see any of your peers’ discussion posts until you have created and posted your own discussion thread.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric document.