MPM735
International Business Management
Trimester 1, 2018
Assessment 1 - Group Proposal
Submitted by Group 30
RAHUL ERAGULA XXXXXXXXXX)
SACHIN SUDHIR XXXXXXXXXX)
DAKSH GIRDHAR XXXXXXXXXX)
GROUP PROPOSAL
We choose English education that is native to the countries like Australia, United States of America and United Kingdom to enhance the language skill of those who don’t enjoy quality English education in their countries.
Various sources show that most people that come from countries like China, Japan and Bangladesh lack quality English education and thus struggle to communicate with global citizens. With no doubt in this global era, English is the most desirable language that empowers locals to communicate effectively on the international front (Crystal XXXXXXXXXXWe would like to offer English training courses and certifications to the local teachers during their education and partner with the education sector to ensure that all the teachers that graduate into practicing teachers are capable of speaking English fluently and are effective communicators in English.
China is one of the biggest economies in the world and yet most people find a difficulty in speaking English. Despite the country spending billions of dollars over learning English, it ranks the least in the proficiency of English language (King XXXXXXXXXXThe demand for language certainly exists but what exists more is the demand for quality English teachers.
The need for effective English teachers (Gardner 2016) in Japan shows us the demand for English teachers in the country. While the government makes its efforts to make the study of English language compulsory for year 5 and year 6, it is evident that they need quality teachers to help them provide quality English education to the students.
In a research study on the rural areas of Bangladesh (Erling et al. 2012), it was found that English was one of the contributing factors of development in those regions. The scope for development is wide in these rural regions of the country and empowering them with quality language would be a gift to enhance their development. The survey results project a notable demand among the representatives of several occupations to learn and develop their language skills.
We would like to study each of these countries in detail and understand the nitty-gritty of their economies to strategize on how we would like to penetrate into their market and flourish in doing a profitable business. With the vision to empower teachers to empower the students and take them from being effective local communicators to effective international communicators, we offer teachers various training courses and certification courses that qualify them to be highly proficient teachers in English language.
We, as a group have allocated these countries and below are the mentioned allocations of each of our group members.
Name
Nationality
Country Allocation
Rahul Eragula
Indian
China
Sachin Sudhi
Indian
Japan
Daksh Girdha
Indian
Bangladesh
We would like to internationalize our business into an Australasian business that is known for its language courses and certifications in the Asia Pacific region and
idge the gap between local and international.
REFERENCES
Crystal, D 2003, English As A Global Language, Cam
idge University Press, UK.
Erling, E, Seargeant, P, Solly, M, et al 2012, ‘Attitudes to English as a language for international development in rural Bangladesh’, The Open University, ELT Research Papers 12-08, retrieved 22 March 2013,
oro.open.ac.uk/33548/1/ErlingSeargeantSollyChowdhuryRahmanBC.pdf>.
Gardner, W 2016, ‘The Need For Effective English Teachers’, The Japan Times, 10 September, retrieved 22 March 2013,
www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/09/10/commentary/japan-commentary/need-effective-english-teachers/#.WrNMdZNubq2>.
King, W 2015, ‘Does China Have an English Problem?’, GB Times, 14 December, retrieved 22 March 2013,
gbtimes.com/does-china-have-english-problem>.
MPM735 – International Business Management
Trimester 1, 2018
Assessment 1: Country Report
DUE DATE AND TIME: Week 6, 20/04/18, 11:59PM
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL GRADE: 30%
HURDLE DETAILS: None
ASSIGNMENT TYPE: Individual
Learning Outcome Details
Unit Learning Outcome (ULO)
Graduate Learning Outcome (GLO)
ULO 1: Undertake a systematic and critical evaluation of the external global business environment
GLO 1 – Discipline Specific Knowledge
GLO 4 – Critical Thinking
GLO 8 – Global Citizenship
Assessment Feedback:
Students who submit their work by the due date will receive their marks and feedback on CloudDeakin within 15 working days at 11/06/2018, 11.59PM.
Description/Requirements
Individual Country Report 3000-words (30%)
1) With your approved product/service and country, each group member needs to go away and do research on their chosen country, and in particular look at factors that might make it attractive/unattractive for internationalising the product/service to.
2) For each country, and with your product/service in mind you will need to investigate:
a. Economic factors
. Political factors
c. Legal issues
d. The trade and investment environment
e. Foreign exchange issues
f. Financial factors
g. Cultural factors and challenges that it might pose
3) You will need to make a recommendation about your analysed country and whether it is a good place or not for your products/service internationalisation, and why?
4) So what makes a good quality assignment:
a. It’s based on good quality research.
. You have good quality sources of information (business information sources such as government reports, World Bank, International Trade Organisation, EIU, Datamonitor etc, business databases such as Proquest, Business Source Premier, academic journal articles, textbooks, please don’t use Wikipedia or dubious references, or no name references from strange websites).
c. How well you use these resources support to your arguments.
d. Your information is realistic, relevant, and would be useful for a company/person conducting international business.
e. The information is specific to the product/service chosen.
f. You have adequately referenced, and you have used the Harvard referencing system to acknowledge your sources of information (both in-text and as a reference list at the end).
g. Your final report doesn’t exceed 3000 words (Title page, executive summary, table of contents, tables, graphs, appendices and your reference list are in addition to the 3000-word limit).
h. It should be in a report format. Your report should be typed, double spaced, 12-point font, and has headings (further information on report format is provided below).
i. You have time series data where relevant, which demonstrates trends over the last 5 years or so, and if possible a forecast into the future.
Submission Instructions
You will submit your work in the group dropbox on Cloud Deakin.
You must keep a backup copy of every assignment you submit, until the marked assignment has been returned to you. In the unlikely event that one of your assignments is misplaced, you will need to submit your backup copy.
Any work you submit may be checked by electronic or other means for the purposes of detecting collusion and/or plagiarism.
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Notes
· Penalties for late submission: The following marking penalties will apply if you submit an assessment task after the due date without an approved extension: 5% will be deducted from available marks for each day up to five days, and work that is submitted more than five days after the due date will not be marked. You will receive 0% for the task. 'Day' means working day for paper submissions and calendar day for electronic submissions. The Unit Chair may refuse to accept a late submission where it is unreasonable or impracticable to assess the task after the due date.
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ASSIGNMENT CHECKLIST
Assessment 1 Helpful Hints
Some students have been asking me the types of things that they should be covering under each of the factors specified, so I thought that I would create a list of things that I think is important. You might like to include them, but I won’t make them mandatory, as there might be other things that you would like to include that are relevant to your product/service and to the country that you have chosen. Some factors below (ie. GDP growth rate etc) you should be able to get trend data and also forecasted information -where possible you should try to action this.
Hope that you find this information helpful!
Executive summary
Provided findings on all factors (economics, political, legal, FDI, finance & socio cultural) in the assignment, summarized the report and provided recommendation in no more than one page only.
Introduction
Product/service background
Scope/Parameters of the report
Methodology used
Limitations of report
Economic factors
Economic policy of the Government
GDP & GDP Growth (Trend)
Per capita income (Trend)
CPI (Trend)
Inflation (Trend)
Unemployment (Trend)
Infrastructure
Political Factors
Type of Government
Government structure and how it operates
International relations with other countries
Political risk associated with the country
Level of co
uption
Legal Factors
Legal system and how it works
Government rules and regulations for establishing a foreign business
Ownership of business, land and office
Labou
employment law
Trade and Investment (FDI) environment
Tariffs – relevant (if any)
Cu
ent Account (Trend)
Trading partners and key imports and exports
Trade agreements
History of FDI in the country
Inflow /outflow amounts/where it comes from
Industry access for the Company
Government rules and regulations concerning FDI
Government incentives or any special economic zones
Foreign Exchange Issues
Type of Exchange Rate System
Cu
ency (trend data)
Finance
Banking system and types of banks there
Access to finance (refers to Foreign Company’s access to finance in country)
Interest Rates
Repatriation of