Status report

System

ET (Educational Traineeship) is my system.
Interns who participate in the ET program is my subsystem.
NGO AIESEC (Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) as an organization is my supersystem.

Communication Channels

ET program coordinator <-->Interns
Interns <--> School teachers in another country

Context

The context of this model is educational. It will be implemented within the ET program interns who are college students. The assumption of my model is that some of the interns in ET program fail in their academics due to the culture adaption issues and the program coordinator is willing to provide more information and cross-culture knowledge before he/she send interns to other countries. The program manager is the key factor for the diffusion of the workshop. With the support of the manager, more resources and budget I would have for the implementation of the model.

Role

In my model, the developer is the ET program coordinator. This is the one who is in charge of sending those interns to another country for studying. He/She decided when and where those interns is going to study.

Intended Audiences

The intended audience is the program manager. ET program coordinator will present the model to the manager in order to have the budget of conducting his plan of creating a intercultural communication workshop. In this way, program coordinator is able to implement the model into the real case before sending interns abroad.

Purpose

Some of the interns who are attending the ET program studying abroad fail in their academics due to multi-culture adaption. This model is used to help interns who are choosing participate in ET program have better psychological preparation for the future problems they are going to encounter in a foreign country. Besides, this model is also used to introduce more cross-culture knowledges to interns in the ET program.

Pressing Issues

The issues that I am facing is time constraints. Since the head office of this program locates in China, time difference will be an issue of communicating with people in the program.