1. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OF COMMERCE (AUTONOMOUS)

End Semester Examination – MARCH /APRIL 2013

MIB – IV SEMESTER

International Human Resource Management

 

            Duration: 3 hours                                                                              Max marks: 100

 

Section-A

 

1. Answer any seven of the following. Each carries five marks.       (7X5=35)

 

1. Critically explain the major approaches of international compensation.
2. Define the term International Industrial Relations. What are the factors that affect the same?
3. How do you make Performance Appraisal in MNCs’ effective?
4. Explain in detail Matrix and Virtual Organizational Structure.
5. Differentiate between domestic and international HRM.
6. Explain any five organizational strategies to manage Cross Cultural Diversity.
7. How are HRM practices of Japan different from those of USA?
8. Bring out the reasons for the failure of expats.
9. Critically explain different modes of MNC’s entry.
10. Explain challenges of re-entry of an expat.

 

Section-B

1. Answer any THREE of the following. Each  carries 15 marks.          (3×15=45)

 

11. Explain complexities of International Compensation.
12. Discuss in detail the shifts in employment practices in MNCs’ in recent times.
13. What are the different areas of global training?
14. Critically evaluate the various approaches of recruitment.
15. Explain significant IHRM activities and issues.

 

Section-C

 

• Case Study-Compulsory question.          (20 marks)

 

Graziano Transmission India, a 100% subsidiary of Graziano Italy, specializes in making in gears and transmission systems for vehicles. It was set up in 1998 and commenced commercial production in 2000. The Indian subsidiary of an international firm, Graziano had been compelled by worker protests to agree to reinstate all but 15 of the 250 contractemployees whom it had dismissed in June after they had staged a sit-in  demanding a salary raise and status of permanent employees.

Workers gathered outside the transmission factory last Monday, while a small group of worker representatives went inside to meet with management to discuss the fate of the 15 and contract details. The company had earlier renewed on an agreement to provide a 3000 Rupees ($65) per month pay increase, by attaching conditions to the pay hike. While the press has shown scant interest in the causes of labour dispute , the little information in their reports reveal that the Graziano workers lived in constant fear of dismissal, were subjected to frequent abuse, and were at times slapped or beaten for petty infractions.

In the course of heated negotiations between a group of laid-off contract workers and management of Graziano Transmission India, the company’s Chief Executive Officer  (CEO) and Managing Director , Lalit Kishore Chaudhary, was killed on Monday, September 22,2008 by a blow to the head. In one of the worst instances of Industrial violence in recent times, the MD-cum-CEO of the Indian Unit of Italian MNC, Graziano Transmission, was bludgeoned to death by a 200-strong armed mob of dismissed workers which had barged into the company premises and indulged in large scale violence. According to Graziano employees, the sacked workers rushed into the premises around 12.20 p.m when the gates were opened to let in a car. “They smashed each one of the approximately 20 cars inside the compound. Hearing the commotion, our CEOLalit Kishore Chaudhary, came out to the building entrance. He was abused while trying to reason with protestors. And, when he objected they beat him to death with a hammer”, said production supervisor Udaivir.

Business representatives have demanded that severe punishment be meted out to the Graziano workers. The FICCI issued a statement that said the incidents of workers unrest “are bound to sully India’s image amongst overseas investors at a time when India is making all-out efforts to make the business environment investment friendly” and demanded that “the culprits be brought to book swiftly and given the severest punishment”.

Business spokesmen are also demanding a drastic increase in police protection forthemselves and their families and swifter action to suppress worker discontent.

In response to this pressure, the Noida District Administration has decided to establish a section or a cell of the police solely devoted to LabourDispute. A Deputy Superintendent of Police who will be charged with meeting with companies to help them resolve their labour disputes, will lead the cell. “The offices engaged in this cell will solely be responsible for industrial issues and nothing else,” Said the Senior Superintendent of Police (Noida) last Wednesday.

None of the Stalinist parties, including the largest, the communist party of India(Marxist) or CPM, have spoken out against the police-business campaign against the Graziano Transmission workers. In its September 28^th issue the CPM issue weekly People’s Democracy does not even carry a report on the killing of the Graziano CEO and the reaction of India’s elite to it. This should come as no surprise as the CPM, in its bastion state of West Bengal, has pursued pro-investment policies, all but identical to those the UPA government is implementing nationally.

Fernandez’s retraction notwithstanding, his comments reveal that the ruling elite is well aware that their two-decade long drive to transform India into a cheap labour  haven for the benefit of domestic and international corporations has stoked mass resentment that can easily assume a mass and violent character.

 

Questions:

1. Discuss the risks involved in a job in a MNC under competitive environment.
2. How the incidents like those in this case, affect the safety of senior executives.
3. How the incidents like those in this case, affect the safety of PCNs’ and other expats.
4. How the incidents like those in this case, affect the climate for FDI of the host

country?

1. Why the host country Government could not respond appropriately?

 

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