The International Committee of the Red Cross

BUS 685 Global Business Management, Winter, 2013

The International Committee of the Red Cross: Managing Across Cultures. Due: March 17th, 2013 at Midnight

The individual case assignment is in essence the "final exam" for the course. The Case is in your text on pages 433 through 444. The actual assignment (this document), and the Rubric that I will use to grade your paper (BUS685 Grading Rubric for Final Paper.xlsx) can be found in the "Documents" area in Blackboard. You will need to introduce and discuss the key elements of the case, and will need to provide the information and logic to "solve" it, given the real world restrictions it describes. You should do "extra-case" research, and you need to be sure to cite your sources. Any recognized paper format is acceptable as long as it is consistent. This written case will be graded based upon your ability to pinpoint the key elements in the case, and in your ability to bring the learning of the course, particularly as it applies to the four specific learning objectives provided at the beginning of the Syllabus and again at the bottom of this Assignment. This paper will be written by your class group that you have used to do the two other Case Analyses this term.

Also, be sure to carefully look at the Excel file that is the rubric I will use to grade the case papers. The rubric will give you much more specific information in regard to what I am looking for in your paper. Your understanding of the issues need to be demonstrated at Bloom's Taxonomy, level three or four (i.e., make your suggestions and solutions practical!). It may be wise for you to look up Bloom's Taxonomy, which is the last two pages of the Syllabus.

You can also bring in concepts or ideas from other classes you have taken, experiences you have had, books you have read, etc., but you will need to identify where you got them from in more detail since your teacher may not have read the same book, had the same experience, etc. Your paper should be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins all around. There is no length requirement - you will need to use your own judgment as to how much to write in order to completely and adequately do the assignment. Ten percent of the final grade on this assignment will come from the quality of the language and English skills used in writing the paper, and ten percent for the structure of the paper. When discussing structure of a paper, what is meant is that you have a clear introduction, appropriate headings and sub-headings to define for the reader where you have been and where you are going in the paper, and an appropriate conclusion at the end of the paper. The balance of the grade will be roughly balanced between the course's four final objectives below, and you should use these objectives to structure your paper. In fact, it would be wise