Tutorial 11 – Chapter 10
Expatriate Management

Tutorial activity 1:
Ongoing Semester Case Study – Businessville Hotel.

The manager of the Beijing Businessville Hotel is leaving to be the manager of a new hotel elsewhere. Around the World Hotels, the parent company of Beijing Businessville Hotel decides to send one of its very successful managers from Australia to China to manage the Beijing Businessville Hotel.

Your role is to train the new manager so you will need to formulate an information sheet for that person. You might like to consider which aspects of Chinese life and culture will be different from that in Australia, what the company can do to ensure that the new manager makes a successful transition, what training will need to be supplied

Tutorial activity 2:
Video 6 – Global HRM
After viewing the video you will be asked to engage in a group discussion based on the following questions:
• What factors, other than those discussed in the video, do you think might have contributed to the situation?
• What else do you think the company could have done to prepare this person for the overseas assignment?
• What should the company do with that employee now?

Tutorial activity 3:
Facilitation Case Study.

Consider the case study ‘Avon in Global Markets in 2009: Managing and Developing a Global Workforce’ on pages 387-392 of your textbook and prepare discussion points for questions 1, 4, 5 & 7 at the end.

Tutorial activity 4:
In-class multi-choice quiz.

Your tutor will print out the quiz and administer in class. Students will be given 10 mns to attempt the quiz. Your tutor will then discuss the solutions in