MGT-422: Business Ethics and Organizati

I’m working on a management discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

12.1 Learning Outcomes: 

Upon completion of this week’s activities, you will be able to:

• Understand the difficulties of foreign business.
• Articulate what a cultural intelligence (CQ) level is.
• Explain why guidelines and policies for global business ethics are important.
• Apply ethics understanding acquired over the length of the course to a real-life scenario.
• Articulate whether Google was facing an ethical dilemma.
• Understand ethical relativism and ethical absolutism.

12.2 Action Required:

Watch the short video in the following link and answer the questions that follows:

• Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem)

12.3 (Question):

If you were planning to do business in a culture that was opposite from your own on the cultural dimensions of “power distance” and “individualism/collectivism,” what challenges would you expect to face?  How would you prepare?