Should he return Brett Jones for the operation phase of a major dam project in Tanzania? 

A reflective blog for part 1, a research blog for part 2 and an analysis blog for part 3.

Brett Jones in Tanzania – what to do when a manager “goes native”?
Graham Steinberg, vice president at US based Hydro Generation , pondered a specific question: should he return Brett Jones for the operation phase of a major dam project in Tanzania?

Jones had already completed his assignments on the preliminary and construction phases of the project and the results had been highly satisfactory – he had finished every task on time and within budget.
Steinberg, however, was a little concerned with the means by which Jones tended to achieve his ends. In Steinberg’s opinion, Jones was too eager to accommodate Tanzanian ways of doing business, some of which ran counter both to HG’s organisational culture and to its usual methods of operation in foreign environments.

In particular, Steinberg worried that some of Jones’s actions might have unforeseen repercussions for the company’s projects in Tanzania.