GEC Scenario #1: Shanghai Quality
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As an employee in a large multinational corporation, you are temporarily assigned to your company’s branch operations in Shanghai, China. You are a member of a team consisting of three Chinese engineers, all at the same rank as you. Your team reports to an engineering manager, who is also Chinese. You are in a team meeting where your manager proposes a solution to a difficult quality control problem. However, you are concerned that the proposed solution will fail. What would you do?
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Additional Resources: Global Engineering Competency Vignette #1 (video based on scenario) and Instructional Guide
Recommended Uses: INSTRUCTION/TRAINING (see our GEC Resource Guide for additional guidance)
Citation: Jesiek, B. K. and Woo, S. E. (Eds.). (2018). GEC Scenario #1: Shanghai Quality. Retrieved from https://geec.info/gec01
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 1160455 and 1254323. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We also acknowledge support for this work from Purdue's Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR). |