MZUMBE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT (SOPAM)

TUTORIAL QUESTIONS
PUB 328: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1. What

is

the

management

difference
and

between

strategic

strategic

international

human

resource

human

resource

management? Discuss by putting forward why SIHR should be

carried out in a multinationals?
2. Discuss the role of IHRM in creating competitive advantage in a
multinationals.
3. Define expatriate failure and evaluate the factors contributing to
success and failure in expatriate assignments; and Why Do
International Managers Fail?
4. Discuss range of Human Resource functions to the deployment of
expatriate employees on international assignments
5. Why would adopting a global approach to managing people be
beneficial to an organization?
6. Imagine that you are a human resource manager in a domestically
based company that has decided to operate internationally. You
have been charged with sorting out the HR effects of the decision.
What questions should you be asking?
7. Discuss the compensation and performance appraisal challenges
in international assignments.
8. With examples, discuss complexity of managing diversity in a
multinational.
9. What critical issues to be considered in pre-departure and
repatriation stage for assignees sent for assignments in different
subsidiaries worldwide?
10.
Discuss with detailed examples, why assignees should be
prepared for pre-departure, during assignment, and before
repatriation for and from international assignments.