MGT6220 Managing the Global Workforce ASSIGNMENTS

MGT6220 Managing the Global Workforce ASSIGNMENTS

All assignments should be submitted in Microsoft Word using a 12 pt. Font size and formatted as

double-spaced using Times New Roman. Each of the Assignments has been divided into specific

questions with the suggested completion order. However, all the questions in Assignment One will

be submitted together by the due date and so forth. Only one Assignment will be submitted at a time.

Assignments may be submitted early so you can work around other scheduling issues; however, they

will not be graded until after the official due date. Once one Assignment has been graded and

returned to you, another may be submitted. All Assignments are to be of graduate-level quality and

will be graded accordingly.

ORIENTATION TO CLASS AND TEXT REVIEW – DUE SEE MOODLE AND SYLLABI

(11:30 pm CST). POST AN INTRODUCTION OF YOURSELF FOLLOWING THE OUTLINE BELOW (DISCUSSION AND PARTICIPATION – 2.5 pts.)

Discussion Forum Assignment: Access the Discussion Forum for the class and post a Welcome

Introduction to your Classmates. Include such things as highlighted below.

Enrollment Assignment: Your posting to the class should include the following:

 Your Name

 Your Occupation

 Your Field of Study

 What State do you live in?

 How long have you been a student at Amberton University?

 Why are you interested in this topic?

 What is your learning style? MBTI

 What do you hope to achieve at the end of this course?

 Your expectations of Professor Sanchez

I have been in the Moodle Platform and have downloaded AND READ the Syllabus, Study

Guide, Assignments, and Reference Materials. I understand that all Assignments are due by

11:30 pm CST on the due dates.

Assignment Guidelines:

When completing assignments, please identify the question to which you are responding by retyping

the question. While retyping the question is not a typical APA style, it will assure that I see your

complete response. The following orientation should be submitted first to verify that students can

submit readable attached files and post information in the Discussion Forum. Also, to identify each

assignment/exercise, the student will name the attached file the following: (1) Student’s name, (2)

Course Number, (3) Exercise Number. For example, John Smith, RGS6036.E1, Exercise 1

Assignment 1 – See Syllabi and Moodle for due dates (15 pts.)

Discussion Post 1 (2.5 points) Compare and contrast the role of HRM departments in your

country and one other you know about, critically appraising the impact on firm

competitiveness.

Chapter 1:

1. Can you provide an example of knowledge achieved by the interpretive view? 2. Discuss how the significant studies of cultural values are similar.

Chapter 2:

1. Evaluate whether cross-cultural differences in HRM practices are increasing or decreasing and why. You may want to use examples to illustrate your argument.

Chapter 3:

What are the origins of the `four influences’ framework?

Assignment 2 – See Syllabi and Moodle for due dates (15 pts.)

Discussion Post 2– How useful is the concept of `dominance’ effects? Explain.

2, 5pt.)

Chapter 4:

1. What does 5-P stand for? 2. Review the article Cultural Intelligence in the course documents and discuss it. Find a more

recent Study and explain the differences.

Chapter 5:

1. Why are MNCs increasingly looking for alternative forms of international assignments? Be detailed.

Chapter 6:

1. Identify three types of legal regulation that shape the type of labor market in a host country environment and provide one example of country differences for each type.

Chapter 7:

1. What regulatory challenges does the emergence of the gig economy present? Be detailed.

Assignment 3 – See Syllabi and Moodle for due dates (15 pts.)

Posting – What are the top ranked factors contributing to acquisition success according to well-

known surveys and reports?

Chapter 9:

1. List nine ways of gaining access to external knowledge (discussed in section 5 of this chapter).What are the major issues that need to be considered when designing training

programs to improve expatriates’ cross-cultural skills?

Chapter 10:

1. What are the major issues that need to be considered when designing training programs to improve expatriates’ cross-cultural skills?

Chapter 12:

1. How can national culture impact performance management systems?

Assignment 4 – See Syllabi and Moodle for due dates (15 pts.)

Posting – Why is it important for MNCs to develop compensation and benefits policies that

result in fair processes and outcomes?

Chapter 13:

1. How does employees’ domestic base pay differ from employees’ international base pay?

Chapter 14:

1. Which of the issues of diversity management in Lenovo are concerned with individual diversity and which are the collective-oriented diversity issues?

Chapter 15:

1. Review the Engaging and Integrity Global Workforce Article in the course documents. Find a more recent study and discuss what the differences are.

GRADUATE PROJECT: Graduate Research Project (25%):

Each graduate student will conduct a presentation via YouTube or other technology. You will need

to convert your recorded PowerPoint presentation to a video movie or MPEG; then, you may upload

it to YouTube. At that point, YouTube will give you a link to share both on the discussion board for

other students to review and in the Moodle. You will be expected to develop and design an effective

global mobility program highlighting global assignments, adjustment to foreign cultures, work role

factors, expatriation-repatriation cycle, and support practices of a particular country. The Graduate

project will be due see Syllabi and Moodle for due date. You will need to submit a PowerPoint

PDF in the Moodle.

The presentation will consist of a professional 25-30 minute analysis. You should use PowerPoint

(or other technology) to create the recording and production of the topic, and presentations should be

professional and engaging. During your presentation, you are also expected to follow Bloom’s

Taxonomy Guidelines, including a robust Literature Review. Please review my webcast on the details of your Graduate Research Project. Your grade will be based on the Critical Thinking

Rubric (see study guide). The student learner is expected to do ample research on the Managing

the Global Workforce, Global Mobility Programs, and provide recent and relevant updated

information.

 25-30 minute presentation (recording).

 Zoom meeting with librarians and pre-approval by me. If these are not completed, there will be a 10% penalty.

 Graduate Project should include Introduction including your hypothesis statement; full literature review including studies relating to your topic, limitations of the studies, what

suggestions were made in each study (see rubric); the methodology you used, and

conclusions showing implications to the 21st-century workforce. What

recommendations would you make based on research?

 You must upload the Graduate Research Project PDF to Moodle.

 The presentation Link should be posted in the Moodle discussion area for other student learners to review and comment!!

FINAL POST THE RESPONSE IN THE DISCUSSION FORUM AND RESPOND TO TWO

CLASSMATES (DISCUSSION AND PARTICIPATION – 2.5 pts.) Last Posting – See Syllabi

and Moodle for due dates (2.5 pts.)

Graduate Project Review – Review two other student’s Graduate Project recording and

respond to the following questions:

1. What are the essential concepts you have learned from the student’s Graduate Project Review? Take this as an opportunity to reflect upon your perceptions about the topic.

2. What should be done differently as a result of the Graduate Project? Why?

3. What are the organizational best practices you have learned in the Graduate

Project? What are the techniques you will encourage your company to utilize? Why?

MGT6220 Managing the Global Workforce ASSIGNMENTS