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[email protected] https://www.scu.edu.au/research/forms-and-downloads-document-downloads/ https://www.scu.edu.au/research/forms-and-downloads-document-downloads/ Project name: MNG00786 International and Comparative Human Resource Management Case Study Assessment Task: Interview with an expatriate Approval Date: 29 November 2018 Approval Number: ECN-18-247 Expiry Date: 28 November 2021 School of Business and Tourism Dear………., I am a Masters student at Southern Cross University studying the unit, MNG00786 International and Comparative Human Resource Management. One of our assignments involves interviewing a person who is or was an expatriate (either company-assigned or a self-initiated expatriate) working in a country that is not their home country. They must be over 18 years of age and be a willing participant/volunteer in this interview. I understand that you have been/are in an expatriate work assignment and to that end I would like to invite you to participate in my small piece of research. This project has Southern Cross University Expedited Ethics Committee Approval(ECN-18-247). I will be asking questions about some of the following topics related to your expatriate experiences: recruitment and selection process, selection criteria, company requirements, training and development, culture, re-entry and career issues. Your involvement would take about 40 minutes of your time in a face to face, telephone or Skype interview where you are at a place of your choosing. I will seek your permission to record the interview. My responsibilities to you are to protect your privacy. Your name, the name of the company you work for and any other personal identifying details will not be recorded. You are assured of confidentiality and anonymity. You are free to terminate the interview at any time. In my assignment I will analyse your interview in terms of the theory we are learning about expatriation. I can provide you with the Executive Summary of my assignment report should you wish. All students in the class will share the Executive Summaries of their reports. Names of individuals or companies will not appear in any material. Results will not be published in any other way. Please advise if you would like to receive a copy of the Executive Summary. All inquiries should be directed to our lecturer: ABCD ADDRESS CONTACT If you have concerns about the ethical conduct of this research or the researcher, the following procedure should occur. Write to the following: The Ethics Complaints Officer Email: Yours sincerely, STUDENT NAME AND EMAIL 1 PARTICIPANT CONSENT FORM Name of researcher:XXXXXXX (Approval Number: ECN-18-247) I,………………………………………………………………….give consent to my participation in the research project, MNG00786 International and Comparative Human Resource Management - Assignment 2: Interview with an Expatriate.In giving my consent:(Tick the box that applies, sign and date and give to the researcher) I agree to take part in the Southern Cross University research project specified above. YES NO I understand the information about my participation in the research project, which has been provided to me by the researcher. YES NO I agree to be interviewed by the researcher. YES NO I agree to participate in an in-depth interview. YES NO I agree to allow the interview to be *audio-taped and/or *video-taped. YES NO I agree to make myself available for follow-up interview (s) if required. YES NO I understand that my participation is voluntary. YES NO I understand that I can cease my participation at any time. YES NO I understand that my participation in this research will be treated with confidentiality. YES NO I understand that any information that may identify me will be de-identified at the time of analysis of any data. YES NO I understand that no identifying information will be disclosed or published YES NO I understand that all information gathered in this research will be kept confidentially for 7 years at the University. YES NO I am aware that I can contact the researcher at any time with any queries. The researcher’s contact details are provided to me. YES NO I understand that this research project has been approved by the SCU Human Research Ethics Committee YES NO Participant’s name: ______________________________________________________ Participant’s signature: ____________________________________________________ Date: ________________________ |_|Please tick this box and provide your email or mail address below if you wish to receive a summary of the results: Email: ________________________________________________________________ 1 Top-25 journals publishing articles related to expatriates. Top-25 journals publishing articles related to expatriates International Journal of Human Journal of World Business Journal of International Business International Journal of Manpower Academy of Management Journal African Journal of Business Management Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal Human Relations Management International Review European Journal of International Management Human Resource Management Review Academy of Management Executive Journal of Business Research 14. Harvard Business Review 15. International Business Review 16. Journal of International Management 17. Journal of Management Studies 18. Management Decision 19. Asia Pacific Business Review 20. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources 21. Asia Pacific Journal of Management 22. British Journal of Management 23. Columbia Journal of World Business 24. Compensation Review 25. Journal of Organizational Change Management (Source: ISI-Web of Science – Social Science Citation Index (2012). MNG00786-19-3 1 MNG00786 Assessment 2: Case Study Research Report Activity: Conduct an interview with an expatriate Length: 2500 words +/– 10% (excluding tables, reference list, appendices) Value: 35% Date due: 10th January 2020 The task 1. Conduct an interview with an expatriate. 2. Identify and analyse three international HRM issues for the expatriate. 3. Critically evaluate the three IHRM issues involved with this specific expatriate. 4. Make recommendations as to how the organisation can address issues raised. 5. A Research Report is required. What are you aiming for? In Assessment 2 you will be conducting an exploratory in-depth interview with an expatriate to learn something new about the person’s work experience, rather than testing something that is known. In essence, it is a conversation with an individual who can give you information about an organisation’s international human resource management practices. Identify and analyse three international HRM areas faced by the expatriate when working in another country. Possible topic areas can be drawn from the prescribed textbook such as the, selection criteria, culture, dual career couples, re-entry/repatriation and career issues. Compensation has not been included as a topic due to privacy and sensitivity issues. Your participant (expatriate) can be from your workplace, or a friend or family member. They can be either a company-assigned expatriate or a self-initiated expatriate. They can be on a short-term, extended or longer-term assignment; or engaged in non-standard arrangements such as commuter, rotator, or contractual. They can be working in a giant multi-national enterprise (MNE), a small to medium-size enterprises (SME), or in a government entity, regional trade body, or charity. Your participant must have worked or be working in another country. Participation is on a voluntary basis. It is suggested that you ask someone early and also consider an alternative interviewee should your first choice become unavailable. Explain to your participant that information will be coded and that information is for assessment purposes only and will not be published in any form outside of the assignment paper itself. Please note that approval to conduct the research component of this assignment has been granted by the SCU Ethics Committee. This is an exploratory qualitative piece of research. You can use semi-structured questions.Prepare your questions in advance. The interview should have a clear purpose. The purpose is gaining the perspective of an expatriate explaining HRM principles and practices involved. The interviewee should know in general what sorts of questions will be asked and the approximate length of the interview. The interview can be conducted face-to-face,or by telephone, Skype or WebEx. It would be useful to provide the questions beforehand so that the participant has some time to develop some planned responses. Use your prescribed textbook as a beginning framework for the development of the questions and use additional and more recent scholarly theory to help develop your questions. You will draw on the topics of this unit and refer to the literature from the textbook, readings and your own research