Please refer to the attached files for part one. In-text citations to be include, references pages also, please follow carefully the task and marking critaria Part 2 Assignment Task You have been appointed by your Board of Directors to set up a subsidiary company in another country. You are aware that this presents a wide range of challenges but you are particularly concerned with the cross-cultural management implications in managing what will be a cross-cultural workforce. In particular, you are concerned with the following issues, and feel you need to prepare a critical evaluation of the implications of: When it comes to the selection and recruitment of an effective management team, what staffing approach should you take, and what will global HRM’s role be in the process? (40%) In your response you should identify at least three different approaches to staffing international operations and compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages that each brings. You should then justify your selection of one approach that you feel would be best in the above scenario identifying the specific conditions that support the use of that approach. You should then evaluate how the company’s global HRM can support you in both making your decision and implementing your approach. The approaches you should take to: leadership and motivation, communications and negotiating, decision making and organisational relationships. (40%) In responding to this task you should consider each management skill and identify how these are challenged in a cross-cultural environment. You should then focus on how cross-cultural theories can be applied to help overcome these challenges and how these should be applied within your subsidiary. 3. Finally, you feel you need to reflect on the relative importance of your own national cultural background to understanding others from different cultures. What lessons can you learn about working in a multi-cultural environment? (20%) Your response here will inevitably reflect your own background and cross-cultural experiences. However, the emphasis should be on how that background and your experiences have helped you develop your understanding of others from different cultural backgrounds. The final part requires you to assess how that understanding could be applied to make working in a multi-cultural environment more effective. Although this task is based on personal experiences you should support your observations and evaluations with appropriate theory wherever possible. NB: For each task you are required to draw reference to the insights from key cross-cultural researchers and other appropriate academic theory and relevant examples to support your arguments. Credit will be given for further reading.
