Question 1:

"While comparing personnel management and human resource management, there seem to be significant differences in terms of scope, approach, nature and application".

Using examples, explain each of the underlined differences.

Question 2:

Describe carefully the dimensions of workplace diversity. Use examples to explain in your own words five of these dimensions.

Question 3:

Discuss the importance of culture in relation to trends in international HRM to you as a future manager.

Question 4:

To face the challenges of HRM in an international context, Managers need to change from an ethnocentric view to a culturally relative perspective. This shift in philosophy has to be ingrained in the managerial framework of the HR Manager in his/her planning, organizing, leading and controlling of organizational resources. (Thomas, 1992 and Cox, 1993).

Discuss the implications of the HR Manager in relation to: (i) planning and (ii) organizing organizational resources in the local context.