CASE STUDY - Develop a training schedule

Activity:In the section of this week’s work on staffing, you looked at a number of brief CVs
of candidates to fill the Indian country manager role for Delta Beverages. Assume that the
country manager in China was offered a different role and consequent to that move, Haziq
Tengku (currently country manager for Malaysia) has been selected to take over as Country
Manager in China.

Review Haziq Tengku’s profiles in the case study material: Caligiuri, P. W., & Lane, H.
(2016), Selecting a country manager for Delta Beverages India (Links to an external site.) in
'Readings and cases in international human resource management: Sixth edition' (pp. 243-
248). Taylor and Francis. (Attached)

You are the HR manager in Boston or Shanghai

 If you were born in an even year (e.g. 1992, 1998) please take the role of the Boston
HR manager.
 If you were born in an odd year (e.g. 1991, 1999) please take the role of the Shanghai
Human Resources Manager.

Your task is to develop a training schedule for him, and if you think appropriate, his wife
and/or family, while he is in your region. Take into particular account the material on
expatriate training considerations from page 256 in Vance and Paik (2015). Use the
following information about Haziq when developing the training schedule:

 Haziq has been promoted to country manager in China for Delta Beverages.
 This is seen as part of his career development, with more senior roles likely in the
future.
 Delta is headquartered in the Boston area of US.
 The China office is in Shanghai, where Haziq and his family will live, but the country
manager needs to travel extensively throughout China.
 Haziq is excited about the promotion and has already started to study Mandarin via a
PKU MOOC. He will visit Boston and Shanghai over the coming weeks full briefing
and familiarisation before taking up his assignment.

Develop a series of one line entries into a daily program