Reference no: EM132221701
International Human Resource Management
Instructions on Assessment:
You are to required to select two of the following essay titles, one from Box A and one from Box B and provide an answer in the form of a discursive essay in not more than 1500 words for each title [3000 words in total].
Box A
1. How can you link Perlmutter's international orientations and Taylor et al's IHRM orientation to Bartlett and Ghoshal's MNC models? What are the limitations of these models?
2. Explain the changing role of the corporate human resource function in international firms.
3. How appropriate are Western-style IHRM practices to emerging countries?
Box B
1. With regard to recruitment and selection, actual practice in MNCs seems to be quite different from recommendations for good practice. Why do you think this is the case?
2. What variables influence the development of an international compensation strategy?
3. What are the challenges to effective performance management, including performance appraisal, in MNC's?