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Question: 1. Expatriates who return home from international assignments may experience post-assignment adjustment problems. What kinds of problems may they experience? What recommendations can you provide on how multinational companies can address these problems? Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

2. For recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation, and evaluation, explain how adaptation and knowledge of foreign cultures are key determinants of success in international human resource management. Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

3. How do nations differ in HRM? What are the major national context characteristics that affect IHRM? Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

4. Compare and contrast the four IHRM orientations. How can each support a multinational strategy? Your response should be at least 200 words in length.

5. One of the reasons for expatriate failure is the inability of the expatriate to adjust to the socio-cultural environment of target country of deployment. As an International human resource manager, what other causes can you unearth? How can you address them in order to reduce the failure rate to the barest minimum?

Peer Review

Instructions

For this assignment, choose a peer-reviewed article to review. Use the databases within the CSU Online Library, or use another source that contains peer-reviewed articles. Do not select a topic similar to your assessment questions. Choose the article from one of the following topics:

• opportunities and challenges in IHRM;

• types of international employees and the needs for MNCs to employ them;

• reasons for the failure of international assignments;

• success, failure, opportunities, and barriers for female expatriate assignment;

• the different approaches of IHRM in different national context characteristics;

• success of IHRM in recruitment and selection of expatriates;

• success of IHRM in training and development; or

• success of IHRM in compensation and evaluation.

The purpose of this assignment is for you to practice reviewing articles that contribute to the industry. The authors of these articles are researchers and professionals who have shared or experimented with ideas that demonstrate potential to improve the industry. As a professional in the industry, it is in your best interest to review the literature and trends. This provides you with the opportunity to read about what was successful and how it was accomplished. Plus, it allows you to analyze what was unsuccessful and how you can improve it-or at least how you can avoid repeating the mistakes of others. Use these skills to contribute to research papers and other scholarly writings. If you have not already, hopefully you will contribute to the industry by publishing an article and sharing with your community of peers.

As you read the article you choose for this assignment, consider the following questions: How could the topic of this article apply to your personal or professional life? How could it apply to an organization you have observed?

The article you choose must meet the following requirements:

• be peer reviewed,

• relate to the concepts within this course, and

• be at least 10 pages in length.

• The writing you submit must meet the following requirements:

• be at least two pages in length,

• identify the main topic/question,

• identify the author's intended audience,

• summarize the article,

• analyze the article,

• evaluate how the article is related to your topic, and

• explain what you learned from this article.

Format your Article Review using APA style. Use your own words, and include citations and references as needed to avoid plagiarism.