Assessment task 1

Title: Cross-Cultural Scenario

Due date: Monday March 23rd
Details of task
The global business environment requires organisations and people to interact and build
relationships through diverse networks spanning geographically dispersed nations and
different cultures. For this assessment (worth 20% of your overall mark) you are required to
write a hypothetical story or scenario that identifies a cross-cultural problem, complication,
or issue in a workplace context. You are free to be as creative and imaginative as you wish,
as long as your scenario focuses on cross-cultural communication. You should also develop
questions that ask the reader to think about the problem, complication, or issues implicit in
the scenario and generate some solutions. This is an individual assessment task.
Specifically, you are required to do the following:
1. Interview a person from a culture other than your own. You are required to
generate the questions that you will use in the interview. Your questions must be
included as part of your appendix. Examples for developing effective interview
questions will be provided in class. Your interview will be part of your research
process for developing the cross-cultural scenario. Specifically, your interview should
generate stories, insights, or experiences related to cross-cultural communication
and the problems people from other cultures encounter. This information should be
adapted and embedded in your scenario to generate the cross-cultural problem,
complication, or issue in a workplace context.

2. You should also draw on relevant academic and practitioner research related to
cross-cultural communication to develop your cross-cultural scenario. Thus, it is
important that your scenario is both evidence-based and informed by the results of
your interview
3. You should include 2-3 questions at the end of your scenario for a reader to be able
to analyse the scenario and learn from it. You should not answer the questions
yourself.

Word limit: 1500 words (not including appendix)

Weighting/Value: 20%

Presentation requirements
Write in the form of a hypothetical story or scenario (see examples on Moodle)
Include an appendix (not included in word count) containing your list of interview
questions. If you like, you can also include summaries of the responses to your
questions (ensuring responses are kept anonymous).