Bristol Business School

Academic Year: 10/11

Examination Period: May

Module Leader: Ziming Cai

Module Code: UMPCNQ-20-3
Title of Module: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RELATIONS
MANAGEMENT

Examination Date: 25 May 2011

Examination Start time: 09:30
Duration of Examination: 3 Hours

Instructions to Candidates:

Candidates must answer any THREE questions.

All questions are equally weighted.

Candidates must write their name and student number on the first answer
booklet used and just their student number on any additional booklets.

Materials supplied to the candidate will be:

Number of Examination Booklets per Examination 1

Number of sheets of Graph Paper size G3 (Normal) 0

Number of Pre-printed OMR (Multiple Choice Answer Sheet) 0

Additional Instructions to Invigilators:

University approved calculators may be used Yes

Candidates permitted to keep Examination Question Paper No

Material supplied by student allowed (must be collected with answer booklet)
No
please specify:

Additional Specialised Material : NONE

Treasury tags & adhesive triangles will be supplied as standard

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Candidates must answer any THREE questions.

1. Outline the main characteristics of the four approaches to international

staffing.

2. What are the most important factors involved in the selection of

expatriates?

3. Assume you are the HR director for a small company that has begun to
use international assignments. You are considering using an external
consulting firm to provide pre-departure training for employees, as you do
not have the resource to provide this in-house. What components will you
need covered? How will you measure the effectiveness of the pre-
departure training programme provide by this external consultant?

4. What are the main points that MNCs must consider when designing a
reward package for expatriates?

5. Discuss, beyond the impact of culture, what factors might influence a

MNC’s international staffing approach.

6. What is International Human Resource Management (IHRM)? And what

are the main differences between IHRM and HRM in the domestic
environment?

7. Outline the main features of Chinese HRM, and discuss how Chinese
HRM has changed over the last three decades.

8. To what extent do European Union directives undermine the economic

competitiveness of European countries?

9. Is an ethical business simply one that complies with the law? Discuss with
reference to multinational organisations.

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