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Table of Contents
Table of Contents............................................................................................................i
List of tables....................................................................................................................i
Acknowledgement.........................................................................................................ii
Introduction....................................................................................................................1
Part A.............................................................................................................................2
Part B..............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion....................................................................................................................11
References....................................................................................................................12
List of tables
Table 1: Advantages and disadvantages of recruitment and selection of expatriates....2
Table 2: Importance of expatriates training...................................................................6
Table 3: Training plan....................................................................................................7
Table 4: Expatriates failures...........................................................................................8
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Acknowledgement
The learning process during this study provide a deeper inside and knowledge in
International Human Resource Management. Thus, to begin with, I would like to
express my deepest gratitude to my lecturer Mr. Gaenor Roberts. The study has been
completed successfully because of his knowledgeable guide and for his constant
support. The guidance, suggestions and advice has triggered me to go deeper into the
research process. His hard working nature, pleasant way of guiding and constructive
criticisms is highly appreciated.
I would also like express my deepest appreciation to my parents for their constant
support and convincingly conveyed a spirit of taking up a challenging task regarding
my profession and without their persistent help; this study would not have been
possible.
Thank You.
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Introduction
The globalization of exercises across national wildernesses presents new challenges
and open doors for foreign organizations, officials, labourers and their families. The
international Human Resource Development has created work intended to adjust
expatriates to foreign cultures [ CITATION Ero17 \l 1033 ].In the previous few
decades there has been a noteworthy ascent in expatriation open doors for people far
and wide. This improvement made another new frontier of expatriate, human asset
issues that numerous Multi National Enterprises (MNEs) attempted to survive
[ CITATION Min08 \l 1033 ]. To several Multi National Enterprises (MNEs),
expatriation and effective management of the expatriation were critical concerns
[ CITATION Kim07 \l 1033 ]. Thus training and management is currently an
important management capability for Multi National Enterprises (MNEs) to thrive in
global competition.
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Part A
Outline and articulate how organizations can prepare expatriate managers to
succeed in an international context, including recommendations for a
comprehensive training plan.
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opportunities
Host country adoption
may take long time
HCN Language, cultural barriers are Communication issues
eliminated and familiar with with home subsidiary
political, legal and economic Lack of opportunities to
environment have cross-cultural and
Lower hiring cost international experience to
No work permit required home country nationals
Opportunities in promoting Difficulties in handling
and increasing commitment effective control over
and motivation subsidiary company
Limited career
opportunities over the
subsidiary
TCN Salary and other benefit Host country’s sensitivity
requirements are lower than towards specific countries
PCN Local nationals try on
Usually consider as upgrade their own rank
international business and expect reasonable
managers positions in MNEs
Better informed about host
country environment than PCN
When it comes to the business administration MNEs tend to recruit more expatriates.
Spanish financial MNE representing the number of countries such as Europe, Africa,
America and Asia Pacific region, which is engage in commercial banking, corporate
finance, treasury, and capital markets is given higher attention on select
knowledgeable expatriates. The results provide evidence that the selection of
expatriates as a means of knowledge transfer and knowledge characteristics can be
having a major effect on expatriation policies. If the role of the expatriates is to pass
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tacit and explicit expertise (what the business does well and which gives it an
advantage over its competitors), then it is rational for the selection of expatriates to
prioritize capacities (Bonache and Brewster, 2001).
As a rapid growing sector expatriate managers are frequently used to operate and run
China's international hotels. Expatriates who had prior experience in Asian hotel
industry gain more competitive advantage by matching with the organisation's needs
and were able to recruit half of them with some experience in China (Dewald and
Self, 2008).
Interestingly, Brunt hotels PLC, which operates US, France and China are looking
through recruiting multiskilled managing staff for France and China hotel chain. They
mostly recruit HCN and PCN employees. Brunt hotels’ top management think they
see the importance of recruiting expatriates such as it eliminating language barriesrs
specially in Chinese and French, ease of handling employees, no work permit required
and HCN & PCN employess create more friendly relation with each other by
coordinating and controling work environmnet [ CITATION Rob08 \l 1033 ].
In the view of Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl hypermarkets, they recruit more expatriates
to serve higher demand of their customers. Even though providing accommodation
and basic facilities it is still cost effective hiring expatriates than locals [ CITATION
bbc20 \l 1033 ].
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MNEs goals. Coaches, administrators and organisations should have a good view of
the international growth and training (Klobsanthia and Pinmanee).
Advantages:
I. Give clear understanding of job role
II. Provide a better integration by providing detail overview of job role,
developing emotional flexibility and enhance the respect towards culture and
norms of host country.
III. Optimum utilization human resource
IV. Managing family issues
V. Improving time management, leadership, team management skills
VI. Increase profitability and corporate image of organization
Disadvantages:
I. It is an expensive process
II. Risk of employees quit the training and also the position
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Part B
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Critically analyse potential problems that can arise within multinational
enterprises (MNEs) when expatriates are insufficiently prepared and training
programme does not meet their needs, with specific examples where appropriate.
Other than the personnel issues the organizational variables leads the failures such as
concern a clear description of the position and the possibility of autonomy, objective
discrepancies between roles, organizational social support, the uniqueness of the
organizational culture and intercultural planning. There may be confusion in contact
between the organization and the division about the expatriate's position, which is not
clearly defined as such (Waxin and Barmeyer, 2008).
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The importance of preventing the failure of expatriates and choosing the right
candidate motivated MNEs to investigate some of the strategies that global mobility
professionals used to make the right choice [ CITATION FID17 \l 1033 ]. Establish
the formal criteria including technical and management skills required to the position,
examine past experiences of candidates, language skills are more affordable as
candidates receive more respect from supervisors and clients if they use local
languages, use talented managers, selection panels and manage the family issues are
best ways to prevent expatriate failures[ CITATION FID17 \l 1033 ].
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Conclusion
Due to some reasons such as work stress, lack of technical skills, language issues,
family, lack of competencies, cultural issues, mismatch of expected job role these
expatriation plans may fail. MNEs use techniques and methods to prevent or
minimize these failures like proper training programs, personal performance
management, reward systems and support from the MNE to handle work
environment.
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References
Books
Downling, P.J., Festing, M. and Engle, A.D. (2011, July 09). International human
resource management, Managing people in the multinational context.
Thomson.
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Journals
Barrett, B. G. (2014). Training Global Managers to Prepare and Train Expatriates for
More Efficiency and Effectiveness . Journal of Economics, Business and
Management, Vol. 2, No. 3, 196-201.
DDewald, B. and Self, J. T. . (2008 ). Cross Cultural Training for Expatriate Hotel
Managers: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Hospitality &
Tourism Administration, Volume 9, Issue 4, 352-364.
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Pio, E. (2007). International briefing 17: training and development in New Zealand .
International Journal of Training & Development, 11(1) , 71-83.
Varner, I.I., and Palmer, T.M. . (2005). Role of cultural self-knowledge in successful
expatriation. Singapore management review, 27(1) . 1-25.
Yamao, S. and Fenwick, M. (2006). Knowledge transfer success in MNEs: the role of
training and development and knowledge transfer capacity. 1-9.
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Mercy. (2018, April 12). How to prepare an employee for a successful international
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