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Textbook Chapter 11

Textbook Chapter 11

Q Textbook Discussion Chapter 11 Respond to question 2 in the International Affair case study at the end of the chapter. 2. American multinationals are sometimes accused of being ugly and imperialist because they force members of other cultures to accept a system of values and rules that conflict with local practices, beliefs, and customs. • How could that accusation be described when an American company installs itself and its American policies for employee behavior in Russia? What basic values support the accusation? • An American laboring in a multinational corporation is assigned to open and manage an office in Russia, one that will be staffed by locals. How could a cultural ethics be transformed into an obligation that all those in the office more or less adapt to the customary expectations of sex in the workplace brought from the States?

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I think that it is difficult to accuse America for its cultural system because sexual harassment and sexual advances are not tolerated in American culture. Therefore, even if its is for the purpose of human breeding, sexual advances from a senior manager/a boss will always be condemned to be unethical and immoral when the woman is unwilling to welcome the sexual advances. If an American installs itself and its American policies for employee behavior in Russia, I think that the Russian bosses and senior managers will have to understand that unwelcome sexual advances have to be prevented for the sake of ensuring that women are not sexually disturbed.