THE WUHAN ERIE POLYMERS JOINT VENTURE

The Erie Performance Polymers division supervisor in China and general manager of Wuhan Erie Polymers joint venture, has quite recently gotten an approval for his request for transfer to divisional base camp in the United States. In setting up the division and joint enterprise for the change, a key choice concerns his successor. He has gotten data on six applicants under thought and realizes that his proposal will convey overwhelming weight in an official conclusion. The general chief has endeavored to instill in his Chinese workforce a thankfulness for Western business practices and capacity to institute them. In the meantime, recognizing their generous contrasts, he has attempted to blend components of both Chinese and Western qualities in making a distinct culture for the joint endeavor. He accepts emphatically that his successor must be receptive to the tensions between the significant societies. As he thinks about them, he ponders which competitor has the best arrangement of characteristics to succeed him as general manager.

Name/age | Nationality | Language Skills | Functional Background | Strengths | Weaknesses | Boulanger/46 | French | French/English | | Intelligent, Energetic, experience in sales and marketing | Emotional, Quick Tempered, Chinese language | Deng/46 | Chinese | Chinese/Basic English | | Hard Working, Detail Oriented, conscientious | Believes in traditional Chinese approach towards management | Klemm/41 | American | English | | Task oriented | Lack of Chinese language skills | Leung/42 | Hong Kong | Chinese/ English | | Communication and sales | Poor strategic and conceptual skills | Po/32 | Chinese | Chinese/ English | | Intelligent, Committed, hard working | Little networking with HQ colleagues | Tanaga/48 | Japanese | Japanese/ Chinese | | Honest, hardworking, committed, direct, open, human skills | Lacks strategic thinking skills |

Table 1:- Analysis of potential successors of Wong