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Assignment: Part 1: Answer the following questions in a scholarly post of 600 words or more

• Which cultures would be more likely to focus on external controls? Which cultures would consider direct control to be more important than indirect controls? Do people throughout the world have needs similar to those described in Maslow's needs Hierarchy? What does your answer reveal about using universal assumptions regarding motivation?

Part 2: On page 452 of your textbook complete the Internet exercise: Motivating Potential Employees.

Answer the following question: What cultures would be the most likely to perceive differences between managerial and leadership duties? What cultures would view them as the same? Use evidence to support your answer

Using the results from above, write a synopsis of what you learned from the exercise. Provide the methodology that your organization uses or should use to motivate employees.provide detailed information to explain how your organization might avoid any mis-perceptions between leadership and management in the culture you are studying.

Write a minimum 2-page paper using your findings from above.

My organization selected is BechtelCorporation, Selected Country is South Africa.

Part 3: Firms conducting international business need to be particularly concerned with human resource management issues - including selection, training, and development - to better prepare their personnel for overseas assignments.

Answer the following questions: Write a minimum 3-page paper.

1. What selection criteria are most important in choosing people for an overseas assignment? Identify and describe the four that you judge to be of most universal importance and defend your selection?

2. What are the major common elements in an expatriates compensation package? Besides base pay, which would be most important to you? Why?

3. What kinds of problems do expatriates face when returning home? Identify and describe four of the most important. What can MNCs do to deal with these repatriation problems effectively?

4. What should your organization do to meet the needs of expatriate employees both in preparing them for their overseas assignment and their eventual return home?

All writing must be supported by academic literature and must be in APA format. You must cite every sentence in which you use materials from your academic literature. Your work will be checked for academic integrity by the Turnitin system.

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