Assignment (2000 words) Medium essay
An organisation was established 3 years ago and has earned an outstanding reputation throughout Singapore. It is planning to send a team of 5 senior level executives to an overseas assignment in their newly established offshore subsidiary for a period of one year to handle different aspects (roles) of an important project that requires strong team spirit and creative mind.
You are the Human Resource Director of this organisation and have been appointed by your CEO to prepare and equip the team members with the necessary knowledge and information of this country and the climate/ culture of the overseas subsidiary. This is aimed to assist them to not only survive but also perform well in the overseas assignment as a team.
The CEO prefers to send a good mix of diverse team members for this posting. in attempt to achieve a better level of creativity and innovation. Taking these into consideration, you plan to research on the subsidiary country with regard to its history, climate, culture, language, custom, working style etc. so as to cater to the following diverse characteristics/background of the assignees and their preferences:
– Different religion / Different gender / Different family background / Different family background / Different Languages / Different diets / Different sports and leisure activities etc.
When researching on the country that the team members are going to stay for the next one year, you must bear in mind that these team members have worked overseas before. Your pre- overseas assignment briefings and trainings are all very crucial to their performance in future.
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Requirements of the assignment:
Your write-up must critically analyse the following aspects based on what have learnt in the first 5 sessions:
Kindly follow the points as heading
**** Choose any country EXCEPT your own home country, Singapore and China ****
1) Introduction of the chosen country and scenario and context of international HRM – 200words
*Marking Rubric*: Country description is succinct, well written and clear, uses summarisation or paraphrasing includes key attributes of the country and excellent explanations on context of international HRM.
– Background of company/country
– Critical analysis
2) Organisational design and structure of the overseas subsidiary in comparison with the headquarters in Singapore (Apply Hofstede national cultural dimensions to discuss the differences between home and host countries)- 425 words
*Marking Rubric*: Significant details in the formulation of Task, Duties and Responsibilities for job Description and knowledge, skills, Ability and other Characteristics for job Specifications of the overseas subsidiary.
– Compare between 2 country Job Description and Job Specification.
– Culture comparison (mechanistic structure vs organic structure)
– Geert hofstede 5 dimension (Appendice 1)
– Job descriptions and job specification for only 2 positions (Appendice 2)
3) Analysis of the staffing process for the overseas assignment. Critically analyze the staffing strategy of the right candidates for the overseas assignment. E.g., In recruitment, do you want to deploy people from within or recruit employees from outside? For selection, which THREE (3) selection tools (including test) do you want to adopt? – 425 words
*Marking Rubric*: Very good or excellent formulation of staffing strategy based on country chosen in relation to the overseas assignment.
– Recruitment Internal Vs External
– International selection – Select any 2-3 selection tools to explain your shortlisting process
– Profile of expatriate (Appendice 3)
4) Analysis on the training and development process of the international assignees. Training and developing the international assignees taking into consideration of the before overseas posting of human resource development. – 425 words
*Marking Rubric*: Very good or excellent formulation of training and development process and limited explanation on consideration of the before overseas posting if human resource development.
– Do pre-assignment (posting briefing)
– Research on the country its data
– Use Bruce Tuckman’s model
5) Analysis on the remuneration package of the international assignees. The remuneration package of the international assignees taking into consideration of compensation approach (e.g., balance sheet approach) and of the before and after overseas posting of remuneration package adjustment. – 425 words
*Marking Rubric*: Very good excellent formulation of remuneration package and limited explanations on consideration of the before and after overseas posting of human resource development.
– Explain how you package the remuneration for overseas/ expatriate assignee
– Balance sheet (Appendice 4)
6) Conclusion (submission and conclusions are well considered and take into account the personnel strategies of the company) 100 words
You can choose any country as your host country (Except your own home country, Singapore and China) to write this essay.
You should attempt to use Geert Hofstede National Culture Dimensions to compare the parent country and host country. Recommended-link: http://www.clearlycultural.com/geert-hofstede-culture-dimensions/
Take note
1) APA format
2) Plagiarism less than 5%
3) You are required to consult and correctly reference a minimum of 12 different sources of information
4) Viewpoint proffered is clear, coherent and well-developed. The author’s voice is recognisable.
5) Evidence cited is relevant and sufficiently supports viewpoint put forth. Evidence cited MUST be recent (2012 – 2017).
Envidence cited is from reliable sources, kindly provides URL for references if possible.
6) Total words 2000 words to 2200 words *Do not exceed*
7) Appendice does not include in the word count.
8) Context page
9) Page number
10) Cover page
11) Appendix page must be after the references list.
