International Human Recourse Management Question 1 Critically explain the following staffing appraches of multinational companies (MNCs): ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric management. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three approaches. (800 words) Question 2 critically evaluate the internal and external environmental variables the affect international compensation schemes. Examples should be provided for each variable. (800 words) • Each answer shoul incloud (introduction , main body and conclution). Assignment part 1 • Select the operation which will form the basis for your assignment • Describe the selected operation and its role within its organization • Draw the operation’s Input – Transformation – Output model • Identify its 4Vs profile Assignment part 2 Based on the organization’s pursued strategy, identify a suitable set of operation performance objectives (draw the respective polar diagram and justify the relative emphasis placed on the various objectives). What can you say about the operation’s actual performance vs. the required one? Assignment part 3 • What is the process type for your chosen operation? Is this compatible with the operation’s 4Vs profile? • Draw the operation’s overview process map. Assignment part 4 • Draw the selected operation’s supply network. • Assess the suitability of the operation’s location. Assignment part 5 • Determine the selected operation’s layout and comment on its suitability given the operation’s process type and volume / variety profile. • Describe the main elements of the technology in place and comment briefly on any improvements needed. Assignment part 6 • Utilizing the job design techniques described in this topic, assess critically the situation in your selected operation. Are any improvements needed? • For your selected operation indicate the type of scheduling adopted (forward / backward, internally / externally oriented etc.) and comment on its suitability given the operations overview process map. Assignment part 7 • Provide the method of forecasting the demand and measuring the capacity indicating the key limiting resource. Describe the capacity management option(s) (level capacity, chase demand, manage demand) adopted by the operation. Assignment part 8 • For your selected operation describe any inventories being kept and how is re-ordering handled. •How does the selected operation chooses its suppliers? Comment on the closeness of supply chain relationships. Are they partnership relationships? Assignment part 9 • Does your selected operation use any MRP or ERP systems? If yes, please elaborate and present some of the benefits of the employed system. If no, do you believe that the adoption of such system could benefit the operation? • Does your selected operation use any attributes of the lean philosophy (e.g. eliminate waste) or any of the JIT techniques? If yes, please elaborate. If no, do you believe that the adoption of such techniques could benefit the operation? Assignment part 10 • What are the characteristics of product or service quality for your chosen operation? • In case a quality control system is in place, describe the measures of quality (variables and attributes) employed. How is quality controlled in order to ensure operation within the acceptable specification range? • In case a quality control system is not in place, propose suitable measures of quality (variables and attributes). How could quality be controlled so that to ensure operation within the acceptable specification range? Assignment part 11 • For your chosen operation, are there any measures used to assess operation performance (including any use of Balanced Scorecard or benchmarking)? If not, can you propose such measures considering both the importance to customers and performance against competitors? • Draw the importance-performance matrix and identify the areas where improvement actions are necessary. • What is the approach to improvement typically used by your selected operation: breakthrough, continuous or a combined approach. Please explain. Assignment part 12