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Phoniex
Jul-2007 - Jun-2012
Corportae Manager
ChevronTexaco Corporation
Feb-2009 - Nov-2016
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING EXERCISE
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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 three countries with which companies in your nation might establish a partnership or subsidiary. (c) Assume your locally-based corporation has entered into joint ventures [shared equity and management partnership] in two of those countries, and has a wholly-owned subsidiary [i.e., no partner] operating in the third [your choice]. In both types of business relationships 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].
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2.   Identify basic trends in the following aspects of the business environment which might affect your business over the next two or three years while engaged in a partnership [international joint venture] or with a wholly-owned subsidiary doing business in the group of countries you are assigned. Cite your sources.
·        Economic
·        Social-Cultural
·        Political-Legal
·        Technological
·        Market
3. From your analysis, determine potential implications for HRM policies and practices.
4. Using the outline below, prepare a 5-10 minute overview of your findings.
5. Conclude by telling what additional information you would seek and what sources you might use.Â
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BRIEFING OUTLINE
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1. Industry: Personal Care Products Group of Countries: Kenya, Jamaica, Canada
2. Key Environmental Trends and HR Implications
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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] |
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Economic Conditions                                                                  |
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Social-Cultural    |
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Market/Competition Changes    |
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Technological Changes    |
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Political-Legal Conditions    |
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3. What additional information would you seek, and name some potential sources.
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