- Marwan A.

Jahlan

- Assignment 2

- IHRM

Case Study Solutions - 2023/01/11

- Dr. Gamal Al-Doais

1. Does Eric’s personal background assist in his
assessment of the problems he faces?
As Eric has been through so many countries and cultures, he
unquestionably knows what is the importance of language, what
could be the culture differences for the expatriates, what
expatriates need to overcome such barriers. For example, when
he traveled to France without knowing their language, he
suffered a lot. Consequently, if he is about to send an expatriate
to any country while this employee does not know its language,
Eric realizes the significance of knowing that host country
language. That is why Eric claims and mandates the expatriate
policy to include language courses. In addition to having cultural
experience, Eric has an extraordinary work experience so that he
is highly capable of knowing what employees’ urgent needs and
wants. If Eric hadn’t this fantastic experience, the expatriates
would’ve got used to work. Therefore, he included some criteria
in the expatriate policy.

2. Would you have approached this situation

differently? If so, what benefits would your
different approach provide for Tex-Mark?
All the strategies that were used by Tex-Mark such as expatriate
policy are short-term ones. It only focuses on the efficiency and
usefulness of expatriates and repatriates. By using this strategies
Tex-Mark will acquire effectiveness and output from them, but
there is no retention planning or inspirational aspect that will
keep the employees pleased. So, my approach to this situation
will be implementing some long term strategies with balance
sheet approach. Mostly provide benefits to expatriates and
repatriates like hardship premium, allowances and bonus or
maybe promotion after three or four successful assignments. It
will gain willingness and keep the expatriate motivated and
retention of repatriate solving repartition turnover.