4." , ENERGY INTERNATIONAL DATA SHEET

Your group is a committee made up of the General Managers of Energy
Intemational, a young, medium-sized, growing organization. The
prime mission of E.I. is to locate and develop mineral claims (cop-
per, uranium, cobalt, etc.)....

The company's business has grown very rapidly, especially in South
Arerica, where your organization has been made welcome by the gov-
ernnents. In a recent meeting, the board of directors decided to
develop a new property near Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil. This
operation will include both mining and milling production.

The date is April 1, 1972. You have come from your respective plants

jn different locations. This is the initial session of your annual

meeting. Your first order of business today is to select a new Gen-
0 eral Manager for the Brazilian plant from among the candidates on

the attached list. SAO

Fortaleza, Brazil, has a hot climate, one railroad, a scheduled air-
line, a favorable balance of trade, a feudal attitude toward women,
considerable unemployment, a low educational level, a low literacy
rate, and a strongly nationalistic regime.

The government has ruled that the company must employ Brazilians in

all posts except that of manager. It has also installed an official
inspector, who will make a monthly report which must be countersigned
by the company's representative. None of the company's employees or
staff can read or write any language but Portuguese.

' There are a number of schools offering degrees in mineralogy, anda
passing grade in seismology is essential to«gualify for General Mem-
bership in the Institute of Mineralogy. The Massachusetts Institute

of Sciences reguires the following special subjects for. graduation:

JJ geology, seismology, oceanography, and paleontology.