6. Review and Discussion Questions
1. What objections might you expect to hear from employees about overseas
assignments?
2. Assume you are an executive at an international organization, overseeing all
of its factories worldwide. What actions do you want the HR department to
perform so that international assignments are eagerly accepted?
3. Why should manager of an international organization and HR department be
concerned about the differences in cultural assumptions found around the
world? Provide example of an assumption that differs from those found in
developed countries.
4. When an HR department seeks to centralize its operations at head quarters,
what benefits does it gain? What risk does it incur?
5. What makes international staffing so complicated?
6. Outline the key factors that need to be considered in developing an
international relocation program for a company’s employees.
7. Excluding job-related and company related items, what do you think a foreign
national needs to know before moving to your company?
Mahmood Qasim
