Activity

Activity objective

To detect business opportunities based on local trends.

Instructions

You will supervise the opening of your company’s office in Europe. You will be responsible of choosing the best location for this branch office, recruiting the head of the office, and making sure everything runs smoothly once the business start to operate.

You must assure that the hired team is multicultural to follow the local job regulations and most importantly, to understand and balance the work standards for this team.

Define the action plan and timeline for this project.

1. Where will the office be located?
2. Why did you choose this country/city?
3. What are the work standards of this place?
4. If you could choose any European region for the office, based only on the work standards of the region, which one would you choose? Why?
5. Which regional employees would you pick as your team? Why?

Checklist

• The action plan and timeline for the project are defined.
• The questions are answered in detail and completely.
• Using and properly citing at least three sources of information.