Introduction

Spanning the Globe
Text-Mark is a multinational company engaged in manufacturing of printer and optical scanner . It is based in San Antonio , however , its operates in various countries in Brazil , India , France , Australia ,
Hongkong and Israel . Employees , specifically , engineers are expatriated to head operations abroad . To prepare and support the employees for these assignments , the Global HR Development devised a training program .
Unfortunately , the training program appeared to be informal and ineffective in addressing the implications of managing human resources internationally such as cross-national differences in terms of culture and institutionalism . Undeniably , this problem exists in the organization as stated in the case of Fred Banks , an engineer who was assigned in Mexico and India consecutively . He and his team had encountered employee-relationship problems brought about by cultural differences . Government licenses and accreditations for the company were delayed because of this thereby resulting to longer expatriate assignments and higher costs . Cultural clashes cause employee-to-employee and employer-to employee relationship problems which result to decline in efficiency and productivity .
Moreover , Juanita Roberto , the Vice President for Human Resources
Department , is proposing a cut in the training programs expense and shorter expatriate assignments . A cost-cutting scheme is being pushed by the VP which makes it more difficult to address the current problem .
To address this problem , a thorough training program should be formulated to prepare an employee in his international assignment . A comprehensive study on the country 's culture , history , business practices and language should be integrated in the pre-departure training agenda