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Unit 13: GHRM Trends and Future Challenges

13.6 Review Questions Notes

1. Analyse the areas of developments of international business ethics and the challenges
they raise for HR professionals.

2. Being an HR manager, develop the strategies for the international HRM of an Indian
subsidiary operating abroad.
3. Examine the emerging role of HR in operationalising corporate ethics programme.

4. Why nowadays corporates are becoming socially responsible? Explain by giving example
of a big corporates.
5. Analyse the challenges for the HR formation of the international firm.

6. When a firm operates abroad, what are the ways in which a firm can create an image of the
good and responsible corporate in the mind of the local community?
7. Develop the detailed HR plan which a manager should consider when sending his
employees abroad for work in the subsidiaries.
8. How do you think that the problem of bribery and corruption leads to ethical dilemmas?
Suggest the measures taken to deals with them.
9. Consider that your company has decided to send you abroad to manage its operations in
a host country where bribery and corruption is common. Analyse the global values which
you will follow.
10. Analyse the role and responsibilities of HR managers in achieving the corporate social
responsibility for subsidiary operating abroad.
11. Describe in detail the IHRM strategies and how can these be made to work.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. False 2. True
3. False 4. False

5. True 6. False
7. True 8. False
9. False 10. True
11. True 12. True

13. Qualified 14. Xenophobic
15. Strategy

13.7 Further Readings

Books Dowling, P. J. and Welch, D. E. (1999). International Human Resources Management.
4th ed. CENGAGE Learning.

Ashwathappa, K. and Dash, S. (2008). International HRM. Tata McGraw Hill.
Publishing Company Limited.

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