Imagine, if you will, that you are the CEO for a U.S.
technology company that has agreed to enter a joint venture with a successful
technology company in India. The venture will involve creation of
cross-cultural, cross-functional teams comprised of American and Indian workers
in order to generate innovative IT solutions that could serve both the U.S. and
India markets.
Please provide assistance in:
Designing a Diversity Management Plan for the American CEO
and her Company in 4-6 pages (cover is not necessary but appreciated) with the
following:
1. Introductory Analysis in which you succinctly address
(2-3 pp.):
• Keys to
successful diversity management, and
• Diversity
challenges and opportunities related to entering the India market and to
developing the U.S.-India teams (please also consider the first note below
regarding the many ways to view diversity).
2. Basic elements of your plan, rationale for each element,
and how each element addresses the diversity challenges that you have
identified (2-3 pp.). Elements of your plan should address vital HR needs
including:
• Recruiting,
selection, and orientation
• Training
and development
• Any other
human resource management topics that are crucial to the success of the U.S.
company entering into this joint venture with the India technology company.
Please:
• Remember
that most of the diversity issues that you read about discuss
racial/ethnic/gender components. Of course, there are many ways to view
diversity, including the diversity of ideas or perspectives in a more general
way. For example, there may be individuals working in a group who, regardless
of their demographic differences, have religious, political, philosophical,
and/or socio-economic differences regarding how they make decisions, how they
organize their work or how they communicate with and relate to others.
• Draw upon
other sources in the background materials to guide your work, and reference any
sources that you use in your work (at least FIVE in this case, please).
• Use
headings and subheadings to clearly show the structure of your analysis.
