Reference no: EM132760206

You are an expatriate manager at a manufacturing facility in Asia on your first assignment abroad. You are aware of increasing concern among your employees (mostly young women) about wages that barely permit them to live at subsistence level. There is no union in the production plant at present, and you know that your superiors in your home country are not 6+particularly supportive of efforts to organize workers. You also know that if workers vote to form a union and then demand higher wages, headquarter is likely to shift production elsewhere. If the production plant shuts down, your employees will lose their jobs, and you'll be transferred.

Based on the above statement

Question # 1

Should you (in the position of expatriate manager) encourage or discourage your workers in their efforts to unionize? Critically explain your decision and also, as an expatriate manager provide strategies in both cases (encourage or discourage) for above mentioned situation?

Note: Explain Briefly