Your fast-food franchise cleared for business in all four countries (United Arab Emirates, Israel, Mexico, and China). You now have to start construction on your restaurants. The financing is coming from the United Arab Emirates, the materials are coming from Mexico and China, the engineering and technology are coming from Israel, and the labor will be hired locally within these countries by your management team from the United States. You invite all of the players to the headquarters in the United States for a big meeting to explain the project and get to know one another. In preparation for the meeting, you want to avoid cultural silos, while ensuring all parties engage with each other. Answer the following questions in preparation:

• What do you know about these cultures, specifically their political, economic, legal, educational, family, and social systems, that could help you in getting the project team together?
• What are some of the contrasting cultural values about uncertainty avoidance, ethnocentrism, communication apprehension, and culture shock that could potentially influence a cultural silo mindset and prevent team engagement?

International Managers are more focused on global virtual teams to manage projects and gain a strategic advantage. The global team for the fast food expansion project is dispersed in geographically different regions, and after the first project meeting in the United States, you plan to use a combination of social media technology to accomplish the team goals. The complexity of global virtual teams goes beyond the traditional principles used for national teams. As you begin to plan, you are concerned about some of the challenges that will exist during the virtual meetings, particularly the fact that the United States is an individualist low-context country, and some of the countries present are collectivist high-context countries. What strategies would you use to begin to have everyone develop a relationship with each other that will help ease engagement and collaboration during the virtual meeting and future negotiations, development, and implementation? Address the following questions in your response:

• What are some of the issues you should be concerned about regarding verbal and nonverbal language for this group to avoid misinterpretations and barriers to communication?
• How do people of different cultures seek connections and establish relationships using social media?
• Does technology allow you to develop trust for team building?
• How would you manage potential conflict arising from the cultural differences among the project team?

Week 2

Resources: Review your Week 2 readings and videos.

For your Week 2 Assignment, complete the following:

Choose one of the following artists for an examination of their stylistic development into abstraction:

• Arthur Dove
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright
• Marsden Hartley
• Max Weber
• Georgia O’Keeffe

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper examining your selected artist’s development into abstraction that responds to the following:

• How and why did early American abstraction develop?
• What subjects were present in your artist’s abstract works? Describe with at least one example from the artist.
• Why did the artists choose to work in this style? To what influences were they responding to from Europe, and how was their own exploration of abstraction meaningful to them?
• What is your own response to the artist’s work?

Format your paper according to appropriate course level APA guidelines.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.

Materials

·         Hughes’ Dream Harlem Video Reflection

·         Duchamp Reinvents His Style

·         Representational Cityscape

·         Khan Academy: Becoming Modern

·         Week 2 Electronic Reserve Readings

·         Framing America, Ch. 6

For this assignment you are to write a 1 to 2-page paper that addresses supply and demand for the iPhone 6 plus.

Note: The Apple iPhone 6 plus cellular phone will be researched for each course project assignment leading up to your final submission.

Guidelines for this assignment are listed below:

• Research the number of Apple iPhone 6 plus cellular phones that were released in the United States.
• Identify the cost of the Apple iPhone 6 plus.
• Discuss whether or not demand and supply are in equilibrium or is demand greater than supply.
• Identify two factors that would cause the demand curve to shift to the left.
• Discuss two factors that would cause the demand curve to shift to the right.
• Identify two factors that would cause the supply curve to shift to the left.
• Discuss two factors that would cause the supply curve to shift to the right.
• State whether or not a price floor or price ceiling in the iPhone 6 plus would benefit consumers and why.
• Discuss if the Apple iPhone 6 plus account is a market failure.

Assignment must align with the following guidelines:

• Title page
• 1 to 2-pages of content
• At least two sources
• Reference page
• APA formatted

For more information on APA formatting, please click the Resources tab in this course and check out the Library Resources area.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504

Your fast-food franchise cleared for business in all four countries (United Arab Emirates, Israel, Mexico, and China). You now have to start construction on your restaurants. The financing is coming from the United Arab Emirates, the materials are coming from Mexico and China, the engineering and technology are coming from Israel, and the labor will be hired locally within these countries by your management team from the United States. You invite all of the players to the headquarters in the United States for a big meeting to explain the project and get to know one another. In preparation for the meeting, you want to avoid cultural silos, while ensuring all parties engage with each other. Answer the following questions in preparation:

• What do you know about these cultures, specifically their political, economic, legal, educational, family, and social systems, that could help you in getting the project team together?
• What are some of the contrasting cultural values about uncertainty avoidance, ethnocentrism, communication apprehension, and culture shock that could potentially influence a cultural silo mindset and prevent team engagement?

International Managers are more focused on global virtual teams to manage projects and gain a strategic advantage. The global team for the fast food expansion project is dispersed in geographically different regions, and after the first project meeting in the United States, you plan to use a combination of social media technology to accomplish the team goals. The complexity of global virtual teams goes beyond the traditional principles used for national teams. As you begin to plan, you are concerned about some of the challenges that will exist during the virtual meetings, particularly the fact that the United States is an individualist low-context country, and some of the countries present are collectivist high-context countries. What strategies would you use to begin to have everyone develop a relationship with each other that will help ease engagement and collaboration during the virtual meeting and future negotiations, development, and implementation? Address the following questions in your response:

• What are some of the issues you should be concerned about regarding verbal and nonverbal language for this group to avoid misinterpretations and barriers to communication?
• How do people of different cultures seek connections and establish relationships using social media?
• Does technology allow you to develop trust for team building?
• How would you manage potential conflict arising from the cultural differences among the project team?