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Cultural Dimensions of Business Location Decisions

Note: there are no group writing assignments in this class, and all written work will be completed independently.

Preparation

To prepare for this assignment, students must:

• read the "Introductory Readings" located in the "Pages" section of Canvas
• read the resources listed below
• use the "Compare Countries" (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)tool on the Hofstede Insights website to compare the listed Cultural Dimensions of Denmark and the United States
• download and save the Cultural Comparison document that has been prepared for you (you will complete the three tasks in this document, save it, and upload it to this assignment as a doc, docx, or PDF)

Purpose

The communication assignments in this course aim to develop communication skills that students will need in their professional lives. Students will study, analyze, and synthesize information and research through independent and group learning contexts, and will use both oral and written communication to do this work. Through these assignments, students will develop skills that will help them excel in their professional endeavors. Targeted skills include: argumentation; analysis; organization; presentation skills; and small group and interpersonal communication skills.

Goals

This assignment has two goals:

1. to begin understanding and synthesizing the cultural/social aspects that must be considered as part of engineering economic analysis
2. to make an argument regarding a plant location recommendation based only on your cultural/social analysis and the specific policy of parental leave

Objectives

The objectives of this assignment include: summary; research; making a case; interpersonal communication

Overview

The first chapter of your economics textbook (the big book) contextualizes engineering economic analysis and decision making within the Code of Ethics of the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). In the first item on this list, the NSPE states that "Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall: Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public." As an ethically inclined engineer, you will first want to consider the people impacted by the decisions you are considering, and how your work and vision will fit into the lives and cultures of those people.

For this assignment, you will examine the cultural dimensions of Denmark and the United States as laid out on the Hoftede Insights website. You will summarize the information you find into the form attached to this assignment, compare two specific dimensions of each country, and conduct a mini analysis regarding the socio-political policy of parental leave.

You will complete this assignment using this pre-formatted document: Cultural Comparison.docx

Resources

Some resources have been provided for you below. Use these resources to complete Task 3 . You must cite the resources below using in-text citations, and in the "Works Cited" section provided to you at the end of the document.

Parental Leave

• Parental Leave When Working in Denmark
• The world’s richest countries guarantee mothers more than a year of paid maternity leave. The U.S. guarantees them nothing, Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post (there is no government-related webpage for the US, but this article provides
• Key Characteristics of Parental leave systems, OCED, Social Policy Division (especially see table)
• Why Paid Family Leave is Good Business, (Boston Consulting Group, 2017) (pgs. 13-18)
• "Family provisions at the workplace and relationship to absenteeism, retention, and productivity of workers: Timely evidence from prior data" (Brandon & Temple, 2006) (read at least the abstract, skim the rest for comprehension (or even interest!)

Rubric

Cultural Dimensions of Business Location Decisions