Week 1 Activities
Question 1: Describe in your own words, the difference
between an international organization and a global organization. Use citations
as appropriate.
Question 2: How can we use Hofstede’s four dimensions–power
distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity–to gain
insights into leader-subordinate relationships around the world?
Please give some specific examples.
Week 2 Activities
Question 1: Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the
Ethnocentric, Polycentric, Geocentric, and Regiocentric approaches to
recruiting and hiring global employees. When would you use each?
Question 2: Research the country of your choice. Discuss at
least five of the aspects you should know as an HR professional about doing
business in that country.
Resource: http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/hrpractices.htm
Week 3 Activities
Question 1: What are the steps a company’s Global Human
Resources Department can take to maximize the effectiveness of an expatriate’s
assignment and the long-term benefit to the company?
Question 2: What skills do you believe are most valuable for
expatriates to acquire, both for an expatriate’s career development and overall
operational success, as well as the success of the companies for which they
work?
Question 3: Your manager has just notified you that one of
your marketing managers has taken an assignment in China to work for one year.
You tell your manager you will begin the visa process for employment. She
disagrees and tells you it will be quicker to just get a tourist visa. Is this
correct? What would you do?
Week 4 Activities
This week we learned that:
a. Expatriate adjustment to the cross-cultural environment
can be viewed as having three primary dimensions: degree, mode, and facet.
b. The process of adaptation can be explained using the
theory of the U-curve and social learning theory.
c. The factors that in?uence expatriate adjustment have four
aspects: individual factors, job-related factors, organizational factors, and
non-work factors.
YOUR TASK: The management team at Holiday Villas is
interested in understanding a bit more about the theoretical foundations behind
international HR.
Choose ONE of the three theories and explain it clearly and
in detail, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Week 5 Activities
Based on this week’s article on compensation or video on
motivation, describe three main conclusions found and explain them in your own
words.
Please try not to repeat conclusions that other students
have already commented on.
Week 6 Activities
Question 1: Choose one country and identify and discuss 3
major issues that might impact the safety of expatriates living abroad in this
country. As a Global HR manager, what steps would you take to ensure the safety
of expats in your organization who were posted to this environment?
Question 2: Read the following article: Is Monitoring
Employee Communications Lawful? Then do some research on the country you chose
for question 1 and explain whether the outcome would have been the same or
different? Support your response with references.
Week 7 Activities
Question 1: Is there a universal definition of global
competency? Explain.
Question 2: What is repatriation training and why is it
important? If possible, give a personal example or an example from someone you
know.
Week 8 Activities
Choose a country. Explain why, in your opinion, this would
be a challenging country for an expatriate. If possible, use a personal example
or an example of someone you know. Support your rationale with at least TWO
resources.
Case Study: Holiday
Villas
Background:
Holiday Villas owns more than 40 hotels throughout the
United States. They recently acquired a small hotel chain in Spain (6 hotels),
with the objective of growing the organization globally and establishing an
international presence.
Holiday Villas are family style rooms, typically two bedroom
suites and a mini kitchen that cater to families on vacation who want to spend
time in a low budget but well located area.
Most guests stay 3-7 nights, and most guest are families or
groups. The hotels are typically located in cities with tourist attractions,
near downtown locations that are easily accessible by mass transit.
The organization has decided to use the acquisition of the
hotels in Spain as a pilot project and if all goes well, they will consider
acquiring other hotel chains across Europe and South America. This is a
strategic endeavor, so it is important that the organization finds an effective
formula to operate successfully in the global arena.
The organization has never owned hotels outside the US
before, and it has hired you to provide consultation on how they should
proceed. Some of the things they are interested in include:
1. What is
the competition?
2. What is
the best approach to staffing?
3. How important
is it that staff speak fluent Spanish?
4. What kind
of cultural differences may be important in the hospitality business in Spain?
5. How
should they brand themselves? As a multinational, international or global
enterprise?
Formatting Requirements
Please follow the following formatting criteria for each
part of the case study:
Include your name, course name and number, date, and
instructor name on the front
cover.
Papers must be typed, double spaced (even between
paragraphs), 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font with margins no wider than one inch. Use
page numbers
Papers should be prepared in a word processing software
(i.e., Microsoft Word, Open
Office, or Rich text format.) Projects may not be submitted
in pdf, docm, or .abw
Each part of the case study should be 4-6 pages in length,
excluding the title page and
the bibliography. Pictures, graphs, and lists will not be
included in the body of the paper. If you need these to support your facts,
place them at the end of your paper as an addendum, referenced in body of your
paper.
Part 1: Due at the
end of Week 3
The hotel management would like to have a PCN (parent
country national) as manager in each of their six sites. Some members of the
executive team disagree and think that the manager should be a HCN (host
country national) in order to establish better rapport with the local employees
and guests. However, they want their core values and organizational culture to
be coherent with the hotels in the United States.
You are asked to:
a. Write a memo
that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, so that the
executive team can make an informed decision.
b. Identify
the top competencies required for this position (hotel manager overseas).
c. Create
an estimate of costs, using a Balanced Sheet Approach, to decide what the total
salary allowance should be. (See International HRM Considerations under the
content in week 3 in your course).
Be sure to support your suggestions with both the literature
and current facts or statistics that you research for this task.
Part 2: Due at the
end of Week 5
According to our course material, several issues related to
employee relations are often concerns in international situations. Health and
safety issues may be of concern to employees overseas, and security has become
a very difficult issue in certain areas of the world. The nature of labor
unions and labor laws can be an important variable for managers from other
countries when dealing with host-country national employees. (whatishumanresource.com).
The executive team wishes to understand what are some of the
issues that may come up in Spain. You are asked to conduct research and come up
with the three most important issues that you think need to be taken into
consideration when staffing the new hotels in Spain.
Write an executive summary identifying and describing the
three issues and include suggestions on how to avoid problems, as well as what
to do in case problems do arise.
Support your writing with literature and data – ideally,
three or four sources for each issue.
Part 3: Due at the
end of Week
The organization has decided to go with parent country
nationals and has hired six hotel managers. The success of these managers is
vital to ensure the success of the expansion into the international market. The
executive team asks you to propose the content and format of a 5-day training
program for the new managers. Typically, this will consist of some
pre-departure training, as well as some in-country training upon arrival.
Your task is to put together a proposal for the training
program. Your proposal should include:
a. Best
practices in expatriate training (why is training so important and what does
the literature tell us is important in expatriate training?
b. An agenda
for the 5-day training with an explanation of each training activity and its
purpose.
Week 1 Activities
Question 1: Describe in your own words, the difference
between an international organization and a global organization. Use citations
as appropriate.
Question 2: How can we use Hofstede’s four dimensions–power
distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity–to gain
insights into leader-subordinate relationships around the world?
Please give some specific examples.
Week 2 Activities
Question 1: Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the
Ethnocentric, Polycentric, Geocentric, and Regiocentric approaches to
recruiting and hiring global employees. When would you use each?
Question 2: Research the country of your choice. Discuss at
least five of the aspects you should know as an HR professional about doing
business in that country.
Resource: http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/hrpractices.htm
Week 3 Activities
Question 1: What are the steps a company’s Global Human
Resources Department can take to maximize the effectiveness of an expatriate’s
assignment and the long-term benefit to the company?
Question 2: What skills do you believe are most valuable for
expatriates to acquire, both for an expatriate’s career development and overall
operational success, as well as the success of the companies for which they
work?
Question 3: Your manager has just notified you that one of
your marketing managers has taken an assignment in China to work for one year.
You tell your manager you will begin the visa process for employment. She
disagrees and tells you it will be quicker to just get a tourist visa. Is this
correct? What would you do?
Week 4 Activities
This week we learned that:
a. Expatriate adjustment to the cross-cultural environment
can be viewed as having three primary dimensions: degree, mode, and facet.
b. The process of adaptation can be explained using the
theory of the U-curve and social learning theory.
c. The factors that in?uence expatriate adjustment have four
aspects: individual factors, job-related factors, organizational factors, and
non-work factors.
YOUR TASK: The management team at Holiday Villas is
interested in understanding a bit more about the theoretical foundations behind
international HR.
Choose ONE of the three theories and explain it clearly and
in detail, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Week 5 Activities
Based on this week’s article on compensation or video on
motivation, describe three main conclusions found and explain them in your own
words.
Please try not to repeat conclusions that other students
have already commented on.
Week 6 Activities
Question 1: Choose one country and identify and discuss 3
major issues that might impact the safety of expatriates living abroad in this
country. As a Global HR manager, what steps would you take to ensure the safety
of expats in your organization who were posted to this environment?
Question 2: Read the following article: Is Monitoring
Employee Communications Lawful? Then do some research on the country you chose
for question 1 and explain whether the outcome would have been the same or
different? Support your response with references.
Week 7 Activities
Question 1: Is there a universal definition of global
competency? Explain.
Question 2: What is repatriation training and why is it
important? If possible, give a personal example or an example from someone you
know.
Week 8 Activities
Choose a country. Explain why, in your opinion, this would
be a challenging country for an expatriate. If possible, use a personal example
or an example of someone you know. Support your rationale with at least TWO
resources.
Case Study: Holiday
Villas
Background:
Holiday Villas owns more than 40 hotels throughout the
United States. They recently acquired a small hotel chain in Spain (6 hotels),
with the objective of growing the organization globally and establishing an
international presence.
Holiday Villas are family style rooms, typically two bedroom
suites and a mini kitchen that cater to families on vacation who want to spend
time in a low budget but well located area.
Most guests stay 3-7 nights, and most guest are families or
groups. The hotels are typically located in cities with tourist attractions,
near downtown locations that are easily accessible by mass transit.
The organization has decided to use the acquisition of the
hotels in Spain as a pilot project and if all goes well, they will consider
acquiring other hotel chains across Europe and South America. This is a
strategic endeavor, so it is important that the organization finds an effective
formula to operate successfully in the global arena.
The organization has never owned hotels outside the US
before, and it has hired you to provide consultation on how they should
proceed. Some of the things they are interested in include:
1. What is
the competition?
2. What is
the best approach to staffing?
3. How important
is it that staff speak fluent Spanish?
4. What kind
of cultural differences may be important in the hospitality business in Spain?
5. How
should they brand themselves? As a multinational, international or global
enterprise?
Formatting Requirements
Please follow the following formatting criteria for each
part of the case study:
Include your name, course name and number, date, and
instructor name on the front
cover.
Papers must be typed, double spaced (even between
paragraphs), 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font with margins no wider than one inch. Use
page numbers
Papers should be prepared in a word processing software
(i.e., Microsoft Word, Open
Office, or Rich text format.) Projects may not be submitted
in pdf, docm, or .abw
Each part of the case study should be 4-6 pages in length,
excluding the title page and
the bibliography. Pictures, graphs, and lists will not be
included in the body of the paper. If you need these to support your facts,
place them at the end of your paper as an addendum, referenced in body of your
paper.
Part 1: Due at the
end of Week 3
The hotel management would like to have a PCN (parent
country national) as manager in each of their six sites. Some members of the
executive team disagree and think that the manager should be a HCN (host
country national) in order to establish better rapport with the local employees
and guests. However, they want their core values and organizational culture to
be coherent with the hotels in the United States.
You are asked to:
a. Write a memo
that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, so that the
executive team can make an informed decision.
b. Identify
the top competencies required for this position (hotel manager overseas).
c. Create
an estimate of costs, using a Balanced Sheet Approach, to decide what the total
salary allowance should be. (See International HRM Considerations under the
content in week 3 in your course).
Be sure to support your suggestions with both the literature
and current facts or statistics that you research for this task.
Part 2: Due at the
end of Week 5
According to our course material, several issues related to
employee relations are often concerns in international situations. Health and
safety issues may be of concern to employees overseas, and security has become
a very difficult issue in certain areas of the world. The nature of labor
unions and labor laws can be an important variable for managers from other
countries when dealing with host-country national employees. (whatishumanresource.com).
The executive team wishes to understand what are some of the
issues that may come up in Spain. You are asked to conduct research and come up
with the three most important issues that you think need to be taken into
consideration when staffing the new hotels in Spain.
Write an executive summary identifying and describing the
three issues and include suggestions on how to avoid problems, as well as what
to do in case problems do arise.
Support your writing with literature and data – ideally,
three or four sources for each issue.
Part 3: Due at the
end of Week
The organization has decided to go with parent country
nationals and has hired six hotel managers. The success of these managers is
vital to ensure the success of the expansion into the international market. The
executive team asks you to propose the content and format of a 5-day training
program for the new managers. Typically, this will consist of some
pre-departure training, as well as some in-country training upon arrival.
Your task is to put together a proposal for the training
program. Your proposal should include:
a. Best
practices in expatriate training (why is training so important and what does
the literature tell us is important in expatriate training?
b. An agenda
for the 5-day training with an explanation of each training activity and its
purpose.
Week 1 Activities
Question 1: Describe in your own words, the difference
between an international organization and a global organization. Use citations
as appropriate.
Question 2: How can we use Hofstede’s four dimensions–power
distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity–to gain
insights into leader-subordinate relationships around the world?
Please give some specific examples.
Week 2 Activities
Question 1: Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the
Ethnocentric, Polycentric, Geocentric, and Regiocentric approaches to
recruiting and hiring global employees. When would you use each?
Question 2: Research the country of your choice. Discuss at
least five of the aspects you should know as an HR professional about doing
business in that country.
Resource: http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/hrpractices.htm
Week 3 Activities
Question 1: What are the steps a company’s Global Human
Resources Department can take to maximize the effectiveness of an expatriate’s
assignment and the long-term benefit to the company?
Question 2: What skills do you believe are most valuable for
expatriates to acquire, both for an expatriate’s career development and overall
operational success, as well as the success of the companies for which they
work?
Question 3: Your manager has just notified you that one of
your marketing managers has taken an assignment in China to work for one year.
You tell your manager you will begin the visa process for employment. She
disagrees and tells you it will be quicker to just get a tourist visa. Is this
correct? What would you do?
Week 4 Activities
This week we learned that:
a. Expatriate adjustment to the cross-cultural environment
can be viewed as having three primary dimensions: degree, mode, and facet.
b. The process of adaptation can be explained using the
theory of the U-curve and social learning theory.
c. The factors that in?uence expatriate adjustment have four
aspects: individual factors, job-related factors, organizational factors, and
non-work factors.
YOUR TASK: The management team at Holiday Villas is
interested in understanding a bit more about the theoretical foundations behind
international HR.
Choose ONE of the three theories and explain it clearly and
in detail, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Week 5 Activities
Based on this week’s article on compensation or video on
motivation, describe three main conclusions found and explain them in your own
words.
Please try not to repeat conclusions that other students
have already commented on.
Week 6 Activities
Question 1: Choose one country and identify and discuss 3
major issues that might impact the safety of expatriates living abroad in this
country. As a Global HR manager, what steps would you take to ensure the safety
of expats in your organization who were posted to this environment?
Question 2: Read the following article: Is Monitoring
Employee Communications Lawful? Then do some research on the country you chose
for question 1 and explain whether the outcome would have been the same or
different? Support your response with references.
Week 7 Activities
Question 1: Is there a universal definition of global
competency? Explain.
Question 2: What is repatriation training and why is it
important? If possible, give a personal example or an example from someone you
know.
Week 8 Activities
Choose a country. Explain why, in your opinion, this would
be a challenging country for an expatriate. If possible, use a personal example
or an example of someone you know. Support your rationale with at least TWO
resources.
Case Study: Holiday
Villas
Background:
Holiday Villas owns more than 40 hotels throughout the
United States. They recently acquired a small hotel chain in Spain (6 hotels),
with the objective of growing the organization globally and establishing an
international presence.
Holiday Villas are family style rooms, typically two bedroom
suites and a mini kitchen that cater to families on vacation who want to spend
time in a low budget but well located area.
Most guests stay 3-7 nights, and most guest are families or
groups. The hotels are typically located in cities with tourist attractions,
near downtown locations that are easily accessible by mass transit.
The organization has decided to use the acquisition of the
hotels in Spain as a pilot project and if all goes well, they will consider
acquiring other hotel chains across Europe and South America. This is a
strategic endeavor, so it is important that the organization finds an effective
formula to operate successfully in the global arena.
The organization has never owned hotels outside the US
before, and it has hired you to provide consultation on how they should
proceed. Some of the things they are interested in include:
1. What is
the competition?
2. What is
the best approach to staffing?
3. How important
is it that staff speak fluent Spanish?
4. What kind
of cultural differences may be important in the hospitality business in Spain?
5. How
should they brand themselves? As a multinational, international or global
enterprise?
Formatting Requirements
Please follow the following formatting criteria for each
part of the case study:
Include your name, course name and number, date, and
instructor name on the front
cover.
Papers must be typed, double spaced (even between
paragraphs), 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font with margins no wider than one inch. Use
page numbers
Papers should be prepared in a word processing software
(i.e., Microsoft Word, Open
Office, or Rich text format.) Projects may not be submitted
in pdf, docm, or .abw
Each part of the case study should be 4-6 pages in length,
excluding the title page and
the bibliography. Pictures, graphs, and lists will not be
included in the body of the paper. If you need these to support your facts,
place them at the end of your paper as an addendum, referenced in body of your
paper.
Part 1: Due at the
end of Week 3
The hotel management would like to have a PCN (parent
country national) as manager in each of their six sites. Some members of the
executive team disagree and think that the manager should be a HCN (host
country national) in order to establish better rapport with the local employees
and guests. However, they want their core values and organizational culture to
be coherent with the hotels in the United States.
You are asked to:
a. Write a memo
that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, so that the
executive team can make an informed decision.
b. Identify
the top competencies required for this position (hotel manager overseas).
c. Create
an estimate of costs, using a Balanced Sheet Approach, to decide what the total
salary allowance should be. (See International HRM Considerations under the
content in week 3 in your course).
Be sure to support your suggestions with both the literature
and current facts or statistics that you research for this task.
Part 2: Due at the
end of Week 5
According to our course material, several issues related to
employee relations are often concerns in international situations. Health and
safety issues may be of concern to employees overseas, and security has become
a very difficult issue in certain areas of the world. The nature of labor
unions and labor laws can be an important variable for managers from other
countries when dealing with host-country national employees. (whatishumanresource.com).
The executive team wishes to understand what are some of the
issues that may come up in Spain. You are asked to conduct research and come up
with the three most important issues that you think need to be taken into
consideration when staffing the new hotels in Spain.
Write an executive summary identifying and describing the
three issues and include suggestions on how to avoid problems, as well as what
to do in case problems do arise.
Support your writing with literature and data – ideally,
three or four sources for each issue.
Part 3: Due at the
end of Week
The organization has decided to go with parent country
nationals and has hired six hotel managers. The success of these managers is
vital to ensure the success of the expansion into the international market. The
executive team asks you to propose the content and format of a 5-day training
program for the new managers. Typically, this will consist of some
pre-departure training, as well as some in-country training upon arrival.
Your task is to put together a proposal for the training
program. Your proposal should include:
a. Best
practices in expatriate training (why is training so important and what does
the literature tell us is important in expatriate training?
b. An agenda
for the 5-day training with an explanation of each training activity and its
purpose.
Week 1 Activities
Question 1: Describe in your own words, the difference
between an international organization and a global organization. Use citations
as appropriate.
Question 2: How can we use Hofstede’s four dimensions–power
distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, and masculinity–to gain
insights into leader-subordinate relationships around the world?
Please give some specific examples.
Week 2 Activities
Question 1: Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the
Ethnocentric, Polycentric, Geocentric, and Regiocentric approaches to
recruiting and hiring global employees. When would you use each?
Question 2: Research the country of your choice. Discuss at
least five of the aspects you should know as an HR professional about doing
business in that country.
Resource: http://www.oecd.org/gov/pem/hrpractices.htm
Week 3 Activities
Question 1: What are the steps a company’s Global Human
Resources Department can take to maximize the effectiveness of an expatriate’s
assignment and the long-term benefit to the company?
Question 2: What skills do you believe are most valuable for
expatriates to acquire, both for an expatriate’s career development and overall
operational success, as well as the success of the companies for which they
work?
Question 3: Your manager has just notified you that one of
your marketing managers has taken an assignment in China to work for one year.
You tell your manager you will begin the visa process for employment. She
disagrees and tells you it will be quicker to just get a tourist visa. Is this
correct? What would you do?
Week 4 Activities
This week we learned that:
a. Expatriate adjustment to the cross-cultural environment
can be viewed as having three primary dimensions: degree, mode, and facet.
b. The process of adaptation can be explained using the
theory of the U-curve and social learning theory.
c. The factors that in?uence expatriate adjustment have four
aspects: individual factors, job-related factors, organizational factors, and
non-work factors.
YOUR TASK: The management team at Holiday Villas is
interested in understanding a bit more about the theoretical foundations behind
international HR.
Choose ONE of the three theories and explain it clearly and
in detail, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Week 5 Activities
Based on this week’s article on compensation or video on
motivation, describe three main conclusions found and explain them in your own
words.
Please try not to repeat conclusions that other students
have already commented on.
Week 6 Activities
Question 1: Choose one country and identify and discuss 3
major issues that might impact the safety of expatriates living abroad in this
country. As a Global HR manager, what steps would you take to ensure the safety
of expats in your organization who were posted to this environment?
Question 2: Read the following article: Is Monitoring
Employee Communications Lawful? Then do some research on the country you chose
for question 1 and explain whether the outcome would have been the same or
different? Support your response with references.
Week 7 Activities
Question 1: Is there a universal definition of global
competency? Explain.
Question 2: What is repatriation training and why is it
important? If possible, give a personal example or an example from someone you
know.
Week 8 Activities
Choose a country. Explain why, in your opinion, this would
be a challenging country for an expatriate. If possible, use a personal example
or an example of someone you know. Support your rationale with at least TWO
resources.
Case Study: Holiday
Villas
Background:
Holiday Villas owns more than 40 hotels throughout the
United States. They recently acquired a small hotel chain in Spain (6 hotels),
with the objective of growing the organization globally and establishing an
international presence.
Holiday Villas are family style rooms, typically two bedroom
suites and a mini kitchen that cater to families on vacation who want to spend
time in a low budget but well located area.
Most guests stay 3-7 nights, and most guest are families or
groups. The hotels are typically located in cities with tourist attractions,
near downtown locations that are easily accessible by mass transit.
The organization has decided to use the acquisition of the
hotels in Spain as a pilot project and if all goes well, they will consider
acquiring other hotel chains across Europe and South America. This is a
strategic endeavor, so it is important that the organization finds an effective
formula to operate successfully in the global arena.
The organization has never owned hotels outside the US
before, and it has hired you to provide consultation on how they should
proceed. Some of the things they are interested in include:
1. What is
the competition?
2. What is
the best approach to staffing?
3. How important
is it that staff speak fluent Spanish?
4. What kind
of cultural differences may be important in the hospitality business in Spain?
5. How
should they brand themselves? As a multinational, international or global
enterprise?
Formatting Requirements
Please follow the following formatting criteria for each
part of the case study:
Include your name, course name and number, date, and
instructor name on the front
cover.
Papers must be typed, double spaced (even between
paragraphs), 12-point Times New
Roman or Arial font with margins no wider than one inch. Use
page numbers
Papers should be prepared in a word processing software
(i.e., Microsoft Word, Open
Office, or Rich text format.) Projects may not be submitted
in pdf, docm, or .abw
Each part of the case study should be 4-6 pages in length,
excluding the title page and
the bibliography. Pictures, graphs, and lists will not be
included in the body of the paper. If you need these to support your facts,
place them at the end of your paper as an addendum, referenced in body of your
paper.
Part 1: Due at the
end of Week 3
The hotel management would like to have a PCN (parent
country national) as manager in each of their six sites. Some members of the
executive team disagree and think that the manager should be a HCN (host
country national) in order to establish better rapport with the local employees
and guests. However, they want their core values and organizational culture to
be coherent with the hotels in the United States.
You are asked to:
a. Write a memo
that outlines the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, so that the
executive team can make an informed decision.
b. Identify
the top competencies required for this position (hotel manager overseas).
c. Create
an estimate of costs, using a Balanced Sheet Approach, to decide what the total
salary allowance should be. (See International HRM Considerations under the
content in week 3 in your course).
Be sure to support your suggestions with both the literature
and current facts or statistics that you research for this task.
Part 2: Due at the
end of Week 5
According to our course material, several issues related to
employee relations are often concerns in international situations. Health and
safety issues may be of concern to employees overseas, and security has become
a very difficult issue in certain areas of the world. The nature of labor
unions and labor laws can be an important variable for managers from other
countries when dealing with host-country national employees. (whatishumanresource.com).
The executive team wishes to understand what are some of the
issues that may come up in Spain. You are asked to conduct research and come up
with the three most important issues that you think need to be taken into
consideration when staffing the new hotels in Spain.
Write an executive summary identifying and describing the
three issues and include suggestions on how to avoid problems, as well as what
to do in case problems do arise.
Support your writing with literature and data – ideally,
three or four sources for each issue.
Part 3: Due at the
end of Week
The organization has decided to go with parent country
nationals and has hired six hotel managers. The success of these managers is
vital to ensure the success of the expansion into the international market. The
executive team asks you to propose the content and format of a 5-day training
program for the new managers. Typically, this will consist of some
pre-departure training, as well as some in-country training upon arrival.
Your task is to put together a proposal for the training
program. Your proposal should include:
a. Best
practices in expatriate training (why is training so important and what does
the literature tell us is important in expatriate training?
b. An agenda
for the 5-day training with an explanation of each training activity and its
purpose.
