International HR Practices NMIMS assignment April 2024

Description

NMIMS Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: International HR Practices
Internal Assignment Applicable for June 2023 Examination
Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:
 All Questions carry equal marks.
 All Questions are compulsory
 All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for
question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples,
illustrations as far as possible.
 All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
 Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for
attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the
source of reference.
 Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from
other students is not allowed

 Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions

Q1. Dow Limited – an Australian MNC employed Australians (PCs) and Papua New
Guineans (host country nationals) in its subsidiary in Papua New Guinea. The
remuneration package for Australians is ten times more than that for Papua New Guineans
for the same job. More than 85% of the host country employees (Papua New Guineans)
complain that they are highly demotivated as the company pays highly discriminated
remuneration for the same job performed by Australians and Papua New Guineans.
Considering the situation, explain why do MNCs prefer Ethnocentric Approach and share
the limitations of the same. (10 marks)

Q2. You are the Group HR director for a small company that has begun to use
international assignments. You are considering using an external consulting firm to
provide pre-departure training for employees, as you do not have the resources to provide
this ‘in-house’. What components will be needed to be covered? How will you measure the
effectiveness of the pre-departure training program provided by this external consultant?
(10 marks)

Q3. Mazvode is a Japanese general insurance company which has spread its operations
across the continents with almost 55 percent of its employees working outside Japan.
Performance management policy of the company is more developmental, learning and
feedback driven in Japan, while the same is highly measured and competitive in North
America, goal driven in Europe and a mix of all approaches in other nations of companies
units. There is widespread dissatisfaction with performance management practice across as
found out in employee satisfaction survey, since performance management has scored
minimal.
Further study revealed that younger employees in Japan have sought a competitive and
incentive-based performance management, while employees in North America have felt
that the system should focus more on development rather than being task driven since most
of customer engagement performance comes from contextual performance. There are other
employees who have argued to do away with performance appraisal system altogether as
in their belief it was demotivating than helping any cause.

a) Describe the major challenges faced in assessing the performance in international
context. (5 marks)

b) Suggest the criteria for the performance appraisal of International employees. (5marks)

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