Cross-Cultural Training Program for a Global Manager

Training programme
for a global manager

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
Project overview.....................................................................................................................3
Cross cultural training program.............................................................................................3
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.......................................................................7
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:...............................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
This report aims to produce a cross-cultural training program in order to prepare a
manager of an organisation (Kour and Jyoti, 2021). It is based on a case study in which an
across culture training program will be established as a new client which is UK based
Maritime engineering Company referred to as Seagate Marine Construction want a manager
who is able to manage populations of the Lagos community. It is identified that SMC
employs 120 people and often works with local contractors in order to build underwater gates
and locks. They recently won a contract of prestigious design construction contract in Nigeria
which will begin in the month of February 2023. They want a manager who is able to handle
all the activities in the new place. For that purpose, SMC appointed Mary as a senior project
manager. It is the first time Mary to gotten a long term assignment and that's why it is very
important to provide a training program on cross-cultural insights. This report included the
stages of the cross-cultural training program.
MAIN BODY
Project overview
SMC is an organisation that wants to prepare a person as a senior project manager so
that they will be able to handle long term foreign assignments of the Lagos community. For
that purpose, SMC is appointed Mary Pretty, so that she is able to do the foreign assignment.
It is identified that Mary put herself forward for this role and it is found in her mid-forties.
She joined SMC 6 years ago and performed very well and that's why she got two promotions.
Now she has two children and because of that, she has worked in the United Kingdom. She
already has experience inside the engineering company as she spent a year as an intern in that
organisation (Hou and et.al., 2018). She also has an experience in Dubai as she worked for a
construction company for 2 years. So it is identified that she has an experience in cross-
culture companies but she has never visited or worked in Africa. This is the main reason that
SMC wants to prepare her and her family for the purpose of the Lagos adventure. This is the
main reason that a training program is established named is a cross-cultural training program.
It is a program where an organisation is focusing on developing across culture training
program so that Marry is able to deal with the situation which will come in the future.
Cross cultural training program
The training program is produced to provide training to the people so that they are
able to overcome the cultural challenges at work (Naeem and et.al., 2020). It is important to