Vashontae Grant
Dr. Jones
CBUS 340-01
August 9th, 2014

Case: Shui Fabrics 1. Between the two partners in Shui Fabrics, the U.S partner and the Chinese partner, there are a few main differences influencing how there partnership is working. The there main differences are economic, legal-political and sociocultural. There are two main economic differences between the two partners, one is that China is willing to work at a very low return on investment which is 5 percent, while the U.S doesn’t deem the 5 percent enough they want to increase the return on investment to 20 percent. Another economic difference is that China workers will work for a lot less money than the U.S workers. The legal-political difference between the two partners is that the company has moved in onto Chinese soil, which seem to the U.S as exploitation and grounds for foreign attempts at domination, although the company causes job creation China and also helped the Chinese economy. The sociocultural difference is being that Chinese workers will work for less, there are more Chinese landing jobs with the company, and the U.S partners think that it is not fair to have hired more Chinese than U.S workers in the company. 2. Shui’s core problem is the sociocultural differences between the two partners. Both countries have very different cultures; China isn’t concerned too much about the return on investment, as this seems to be then main focus of the U.S. Also another sociocultural difference is that employment where the U.S is concerned about the number of U.S employees in the country they feel as if there should be more U.S workers, but the conflict with that is that the Chinese are willing to work for a lot less so its is easier to find Chinese work than U.S workers. I would handle the conflict with my boss, by trying to explain the different circumstances that the Chinese have