Aberystwyth University Expansion of The Company Into Foreign Markets Essay

PART 1.The CEO calls around lunch time on a Friday wanting some more information about sustainability. She would like an overview on how a sustainability program will affect stakeholders and the environment. With a Board meeting right around the corner to make a final decision on the expansion, the CEO wants to tie up the last few ends and be able to give a hard sell to the Board. The CEO has come up with a list of the following countries as possible target locations of a new plant to build widgets. Your task is to choose only one country as she will assign the other countries to department heads.

India

Brazil

Columbia

Zimbabwe

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Once you have chosen your country, please answer the following questions based on your country of choice:

• Determine the effect that building a new plant in the chosen country will have on sustainability on internal and external stakeholders.
• Discuss the effects that the production of widgets will have on the local environment and natural resources of the chosen country.
• Don’t forget to discuss the economic considerations of going “Green” and the cost risk benefits of doing so.

Your paper should be a minimum of 4 pages, using proper APA formatting and including at least 3 credible sources cited in your paper through in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted title page and reference page. Your paper should also be free of grammatical errors.

PART 2. The CEO calls and is very nervous. It’s the week of the presentation, and she wants to be well prepared to present the plan to the Board of Directors of Venus Widgets. With the possible expansion of the company into foreign markets, it means that the company will be onboarding new and diverse people with different cultural backgrounds and value systems.

The CEO wants you to develop a plan to help address diversity and to provide a smooth transition to the possible overnight expansion of the organization’s workforce.

This week the CEO wants you to construct a diversity plan for the organization.

For your project, please include the following:

• What does having employees from different cultural backgrounds and value systems mean for the company?
• What would be the benefits of diversity for this company?
• What possible hurdles may be encountered with the inclusion of new, culturally different, employees?
• What will you do to ensure that the new work teams are able to work together effectively, while being inclusive and respecting each other’s differences?