Dan, a human resource professional at a Denver-based company, is evaluating a candidate for a management position in Kuwait. Besides assessing the candidate’s interests, personality, and skills, Dan gives the candidate assignments that focus on cross-cultural training.
What is the purpose of these assignments?

a. They identify the candidate's personal strengths and weaknesses.
b. They assist the candidate in learning to ignore home-culture biases.
c. They reveal the candidate's motivations for accepting the assignment.
d. They enable the candidate to get out and away from the office for a little while.
e. They help the candidate to gain an appreciation of the host country's culture.