Human Relations Reflection Paper

Reflection Final For my Spring 2016 classes, I decided to take Cross Cultural Management as an elective. I didn’t know what to expect as I knew others had to take the class in replace of Human Relations which I had taken the semester before. With the background of Human Relations, I knew that there would be a lot of information on managing a business in other countries. This class covered a lot more than that and the three subjects that I will talk about below are some things that either struck me as strange in a management class or something that I learned from.

Cultural Debates:
This was a great way to see how different people’s lives effected their opinions. I didn’t know what to expect when this assignment was given out, but it turned out really well. The groups

Our case was about GMOs in Europe and here in the United States. The European Union banned all GMOs in the region. There was not allowed to be any imported or grown whatsoever, but the United States came along and appealed the ban through the World Trade Organization. The WTO agreed with the United States and took away the ban in the EU. The EU is frustrated with this and is now trying to make it very difficult for GMOs to come in. For example, there are labeling requirements, movements against, and a few chains of stores have personally banned GMOs. This would inform managers by having strict guidelines in different countries. They will have to keep up to date with the regulations and the rules for each country that they want to go into or sell to. I think it would be quite difficult to understand and learn each regulation for each country. The manager will have to spend a lot of time learning about the different country’s eating habits as well. They will have to tailor to their likings as every country has a different taste in food. This can also effect the selling of products in different