Assignment 1: Staffing Decisions
Hiring for any open positions can be a challenge. Factors that impact the hiring process include candidate availability, internal candidate interest and availability, market conditions, and time limit. These and other factors must be considered when designing a hiring process appropriate for international endeavors.
| Banks industries need to hire staff for its international operations. Specifically, you need to recruit for a team manager, a director of finance, and an international team coordinator. All are highly specialized positions that require at least ten years’ experience, including international experience, and are highly compensated. Because these can be difficult positions to fill, one option is the use of external recruiting services. Another idea is to recruit from within the existing companies. You are going to talk to your boss about it. |
Based on the scenario, respond to the following, supporting your statements with scholarly references:
- Your boss does not want to outsource recruitment to external intermediaries. Present your boss with the advantages and disadvantages of using a recruiting service for this project.
- Your boss is also concerned that he doesn’t know enough about internal candidates to support promoting from within. Present him with a basic plan that would help objectively establish internal interest and identify internal talent in relation to the open positions.
Here are some additional questions to consider when drafting your responses this week:
What are some effective ways of identifying leadership potential?
What are some effective ways of developing leadership skills?
What skill sets are required of a leader expected to operate internationally?
Assignment 2: Privacy Laws and HR
International HR is concerned not only with cultural differences between groups but also on the additional challenge of simultaneously working within different legal systems. This often means that all employees are not treated equally. HR is responsible for establishing and maintaining the delicate balance required to adhere to local laws while treating all employees fairly.
Review the international privacy laws for three different countries. You may begin your research at the following Web site:
- Information Shield. (n.d.). International privacy laws. Retrieved from http://www.informationshield.com/intprivacylaws.html
Based on this resource and your research, respond to the following:
- What impact do international privacy laws have on human resource management, specifically in regards to the interviewing and hiring process?
- What are the important features of the laws in the three countries you chose? Are there any features that surprised you?
- What are the restrictive aspects of the laws you reviewed? How would these impact hiring and ongoing employment in that country?
- As technology develops, what changes in the law do you foresee becoming necessary?
Write a 4 page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.
