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Case 1 Spanning The Globe

Case 1 Spanning The Globe

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The introduction of case

Tex-Mark, a company was started in the late 1970’s, is a manufacturer of printer and optical scanner in the United States and across the globe. Tex Mark inherited a production facility in San Antonio. And also had international facility in three countries: Mexico, Scotland and India. Then moved product development, sales and distribution to other countries. Such as Australia, Brazil France, India Israel and Hong Kong. The company takes employees: expatriates, and places them within those countries to run their engineering operations abroad. Tex Mark also has developed a training program
* Language barriers: Since Tex-Mark did not emphasis on learn foreign languages; many expatriates faced difficulty on communication with other local partners. And lots of expatriates did not have enough time to learn language before they go to other country.
Alternative solution could have been to postpone the assignment and give Fred have more time to learn the different country stuffs, and make sure he has willingness to accept the different circumstances. On the other hand, re-plan the expatriate training program for expatriate, and provide service to these people who want to work in other country. Giving them a simulated environment to understand their situation or what kind of problem they will deal with in other country.
For the forthcoming meeting, Eric should provide the real problem to his director, the problem about the expatriate –Fred, his situation and result with past three assignments, then try to take consideration about Fred future assignment and communicate with him about next step in the future.

2. How will you proposal solve the problem you have defined?
At the first, in my opinion, Eric should evaluate different candidates that would be most suitable for the job. Eric should ensure the candidate chosen for these assignments satisfy most. If not, he should think about to choose another candidates or find the local employee who can do this job in that