Introduction Caribbean Bauxite Company, particularly John Baker, has themselves in quite a mess over the resigning of Matthew Rennalls. Matthew Rennals, the current Assistant Engineer, is John’s successor as the new Chief Engineer at Caribbean Bauxite Limited. John Baker is to become the production manager of Keso Mining Corporation near Winnipeg – one of Continental Ore’s fast-expanding Canadian enterprises. “John Baker is a 45 year old English expatriate who has worked for Continental Ore in many different places and he feels as though he has an innate knack, more than, most other expatriates working for Continental Ore, of knowing just how to get on with regional staff,” (Ivancevich, J. M., Konopaske, R., & Matteson, M. T., (2014). Matthew Rennalls was a young and bright Barracanian who had taken first-class honors in the B.Sc. engineering degree at London University and he was also the son of the minister of finance and economic planning which gave him some
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Jackson and with Godson. We don’t know all the facts for both of these situations but these could also be chalked up as cultural differences in the way things work and how people speak to each other. Rennalls was also very apologetic about these situations, stating that others have had issues with Ms. Jackson and Godson, but that he didn’t want to give off that impression. “Cultural competence is the ability to interact effectively with people from different cultures. This ability depends on awareness of one’s own cultural worldview, knowledge of other cultural practices and worldviews, tolerant attitudes towards cultural differences, and cross-cultural skills,” (Alpert, R.).The company as whole needs to be more sensitive and aware of the people they are working with and the culture they come from. I also think that the Barracanian’s need to be more aware of the cultures that the expatriates come from and how they can deal with them as
Jackson and with Godson. We don’t know all the facts for both of these situations but these could also be chalked up as cultural differences in the way things work and how people speak to each other. Rennalls was also very apologetic about these situations, stating that others have had issues with Ms. Jackson and Godson, but that he didn’t want to give off that impression. “Cultural competence is the ability to interact effectively with people from different cultures. This ability depends on awareness of one’s own cultural worldview, knowledge of other cultural practices and worldviews, tolerant attitudes towards cultural differences, and cross-cultural skills,” (Alpert, R.).The company as whole needs to be more sensitive and aware of the people they are working with and the culture they come from. I also think that the Barracanian’s need to be more aware of the cultures that the expatriates come from and how they can deal with them as