INTERNATION HUMAN RESOUCE MANAGERMENT
Paper instructions:
1. As an IHRM, how would you utilize COLA in the recruiting of employees to be reassigned to foreign locations?
What expense areas should be considered when determining COLA? Assignments in which of the following foreign
countries do you think would have the highest COLA and why?: 1) Vietnam; 2) Pakistan; 3) Bolivia; 4) Switzerland
2. As an IHRM Manager you are trying to recruit employees of an occupation category in which there is a
nationwide shortage to work. These employees are to be assigned as expatriates in your foreign operation. What
could you include in the compensation and benefits package that might induce these employees to take a foreign
assignment?
3. As an IHRM, if you had an option of which country to offshore with, which country would you prefer to work
with and why?
4. What do you believe are the biggest issues in offshoring organizations? As an IHRM, what would you do to
avoid these problems?