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Instructor’s Manual
Chapter 16: Opportunities and Challenges in International HRM
Chapter Summary
– IHRM requires a consideration of the balance of global integration and local
differentiation.
Chapter Learning Objectives:
After completing this chapter, students should be able to:
LO 16.1: Describe the advantages and disadvantages to standardizing HR practices in different
locations of a business, and barriers to standardization.
– Degrees of internationalization
International
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LO 16.2: Examine the considerations an organization should make when expanding their
business practices across borders such as cultural differences, unionization rates, and legal
context.
– Legal context
LO 16.3: Identify HRM practices that would benefit from local adjustments and those that would
benefit from standardization across borders.
– Recruitment and selection
LO 16.4: Summarize the forces affecting adjustment of expatriates to their overseas assignments
and identify ways in which organizations can prepare expatriates for successful assignments.
– Definition of expatriate
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– Spouse adjustment
– Language ability
– Cultural distance
– Preparing expatriates for their assignments
Select expatriates
Global mindset
Cultural training
– Repatriation
LO 16.5: Identify alternatives to long-term relocation assignments.
– Short-term assignments contain costs and reduce disruption.
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Suggested Exercises or Projects
most likely influence this? (power distance and individualism/collectivism). Next compare the
United States and Norway or Sweden. What HR elements might the difference in
“masculinity/femininity” influence?
Exercise 16.2 Obtain a copy of the HBR article titled “The Floundering Expatriate.” Have the
students read the article and discuss the various contributions by the various participants in the
Discussion Questions:
1. Which countries might be the most challenging for an HR manager to prepare an organization
to expand to? Why?