Troy University International Human Resource Management Research Paper Look at: ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING EXERCISE, chose your country and start gathering cur

Troy University International Human Resource Management Research Paper Look at: ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING EXERCISE, chose your country and start gathering current sources that address various dimensions of their environment. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING EXERCISE
1. (a) Select an industry with which you are somewhat familiar [e.g., kitchen appliance manufacturing, personal
care products, or after-market automobile parts]. (b) Identify one country outside your own in which your
organization will begin operations. (c) Chose a structure in which your locally-based corporation has entered,
such as a joint venture, wholly-owned subsidiary [i.e., no partner] and give your rationale for your choice. Your
company has employed a combination of expatriate [i.e., parent-country employees who have been employed in
your local operations] as well as host country nationals [HCNs], and employees from at least one other third
country [TCNs].
2. Identify basic trends in the following aspects of the business environment which might affect your business
over the next two or three years. Cite current sources (within the past 18 months), such as the World Bank’s
Doing Business .report, Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, (Links to an external
site.)Links to an external site. the CIA’s https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/, and The
Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom,.
• Economic
• Social-Cultural
• Political-Legal
• Technological
• Market
3.Discuss potential implications for HRM policies and practices.
4.Using the outline below, prepare a Main Points Overview of your findings.
5.Identify what additional information you would seek and what additional sources you might utilize.
BRIEFING OUTLINE
1. Industry: ____________________ Group of Countries: _________________________
2. Key Environmental Trends and HR Implications
Environmental Factors and Trends
[list several key factors for each of the following]
HRM Policy Implications
[Identify HR policy implications associated with this and
other factors/trends in the column to the left]
Economic Conditions
Social-Cultural
Market/Competition Changes
Technological Changes
Political-Legal Conditions
3. What additional information would you seek, and name some potential sources?
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Recommendation: explore a country you are interested in and thinking about potentially recommending for your
team’s expatriate packet.
You should look at websites such as the US State Department, national corruption indices, tourist Youtube videos
etc. for information that might be useful for both the ESE and, subsequently, the Expatriate packet.
Reminder, this is a challenging time-consuming assignment, so start working on it early. Be sure to follow the ESE
instructions. You are also welcome to examine the PDF attachment below that features examples of previous
ESEs. NOTE that most of these examples have three countries highlighted. You are only required to analyze one
(1).
Note: To help manage the workload of this course, your Environmental Scanning Exercise is
to choose one (1) country even though the examples contain three. Those examples are
intentionally dated (so they should not be copied) and come from a time when the profile of
course assignments was different. For this assignment, I prefer you have time to enjoy going
into some depth and breadth on each of the environmental dimensions rather than scurrying
around trying to find information on three countries.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING EXERCISEs are Graded
Preliminary Observation:
The importance of the ESE is to prepare members of this class for the important Expat Package
assignment and HR careers. Before commenting on the posted ESEs, please consider the following
assertion:
Americans generally are not knowledgeable of what is happening outside their own country, not even
global geography. Watch the video below and take the 20 question quiz to see where you are
weak/strong:
https://matadornetwork.com/read/americans-fail-identify-single-country-jimmy-kimmel-clip/
There is also a knowledge gap about international affairs. Here’s an interesting National Geographic
article from 2016 that is still relevant today:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/survey-geography-foreign-relations-americansstudents/
Hope you will try the quiz, though, a few facts may have changed in the past three years. What I found
while teaching/lecturing at universities outside the US was that my international students were
generally more knowledgeable of international affairs than most of the thousands of US students I have
taught. Often, they were even more aware of US history, geography, literature and culture.
Consider the implications for HR. When expats are sent abroad from US parent companies, especially for
the first time, it is safe for HR to assume they and/or their family need to be brought up to speed on
international affairs, particularly information about the region, country and city where they are headed.
Comments:
The quality of work reflected in the ESEs ranged from excellent to poor. A number were superior
examples of graduate level work. Many, however, did not have current information on the
environmental factors of their selected country and industry. This is the question I hoped you were
thinking of as you wrote up the assignment: “If I were being sent by my employer to this new
international assignment, based on this paper how well informed would I be about the environment in
which I and my family will be living and working?”
Keep that question in mind as you and your team prepare your Expat Package.
I hope you found this exercise as interesting and informative as I did. There is much room for personal
growth and development in this dynamic area of HR.
Finally, if you were disappointed in the quality of your work/grade on this assignment, adjust the rigor
and scope of your work going forward. When assigning final grades, I am most interested in grade trends
and reward progress.

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