LDT 506 Unit 3 Discussion. Problem with Cross-cultural mixed environment
Given: You are the leader of an External Evaluation Team that has been contracted by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation to conduct an external evaluation of a company training program. The company is based in the U.S. in Des Moines, Iowa but has a global presence with offices in London, Shanghai, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The company manufactures the P-5000 Work Loader, which has a working capacity of 4,000 kg. (8,818 lbs.). The loader is used to lift and move heavy objects, and its primary purpose is to load cargo onto ships. The company was the first to market with this type of loader, and even though other companies have copied it, it is still arguably the best loader available. Despite the fact that there is clear evidence that it has improved workplace safety by 300%, sales of the loader have been lagging. Weyland-Yutani's Training and Development department conducted a front-end analysis and discovered that the sales team is struggling with a performance gap. The gap is related ...