Ridge Goodwin
Information Management 4446
June 14, 2017
Dinah Payne
Fred Bailey: An Innocent Abroad
By J. Stewart Black
Fred Bailey is a family man working for a large international company called Kline and
Associates. To open up the case study, it describes Fred Bailey looking out of a beautiful window from
his twenty-fourth office of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo where he has just recently been assigned to
move for a promotion. Then the story goes back 7 months prior to the moment his manager in Boston
offers him the 3-year job in Tokyo. At first Fred is stuck between wanting to accept the job and go to
Tokyo and staying put in Boston where his two children and wife have been living. One thing that
would have made it tough for Fred to pass up is the fact that he would become the manager being in
charge of all 40 employees at the whole firm. Along with that, his salary would triple that of what he
