Essay Assignment

Instructions

You work for an HR consulting company. Our client is a company with offices in San Diego, CA, United Statesand in Vilnius, Lithuania. The company knows nothing about international human resource management and needs your help! The company designs products and produces them. There are two departments: Product design and manufacturing.

Outline

Introduction

1. Analysis of Company Environment

Analyze the company environment in each city and based on your analysis decide in which of the two locations to place the product design department, and in which to place the manufacturing department. (Delete this text)

2. Company Culture

Define what a suitable organizational culture would look like for our organization. (delete this text)

3. Job Advertisements

Write job advertisements (including salary information) for recruiting a local product designer and a local manufacturing worker. (delete this text)

4. Selection

Based on our company culture, how can we select from the pool of applicants those who would fit well with our company and its values? (delete this text)

5. Goals

Define SMART goals for our new employee in manufacturing and our new product designer. (delete this text)

6. Cultural Differences

Assess which (national) cultural differences we would expect when people from the two locations work together. (delete this text)

7. Expatriate Assignment

Suppose that we want to send the graphic designer on an expatriate assignment for 1 year to work in the manufacturing department. Our designer is married, she/he is a single parent with 2 children aged 7 and 11. Assuming the annual salary from point your job description, develop an expatriate proposal that is attractive for the designer as well as for our company. (delete this text)

8. Diversity

Describe why diversity is important for the company and develop a plan for more diversity among employees. (delete this text)

Conclusion.