1.define corporate culture. Explain its importance to management.

2. Why are symbols important to corporate culture? Do stories, heroes, slogans, and ceremonies also have symbolic value?

3. Describe the cultural values of a company for which you have worked. Did those values fit the needs of the external environment? Of employees?

5. Select a culture from the flowing list and explain why this culture would be your preferred work environment.

Adaptability culture

Involvement culture

Achievement culture

Consistency culture

6. What does it mean to say that the world is becoming "borderless"?

7. Provide an example of ethnocentrism.

8. What is meant by the cultural values of individualism and power distance? How might these values affect the management of an overseas organization? Provide two examples.

9. What are the major characteristics of a multinational corporation? Provide an example.

10. Describe how you could personally develop a better global mindset. How would this prepare you for a management position in a global business?

11. Describe the importance of the bottom of the pyramid concept. In your opinion, can these practices have a positive impact on poverty?

12. Assume that you are a top manager of a manufacturing company. Select a product that your company manufactures. Assume that your company makes the product domestically and wants to expand production overseas. Select a country for your international expansion and conduct an assessment of the international market for your product. Brieflydiscuss the cultural, economic, legal, and political aspects of the country's environment.

13. Discuss the information contained in the following video. How could this information be beneficial to you in your managerial career? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDFqEGI4QJ4