Essay
Write a 3,500 word essay on how contemporary international firms practice the following
international management functions: political risk management, ethical behaviour, and human
resource management. See essay structure/content section below for specifics.
The central purpose of your essay is explaining and discussing the above international management
functions. However, you must also identify:
Any relationships or connections between the functions (ethics, political risk management
and HR management)
Any changes or new patterns of corporate behaviour that have emerged in each of these
areas.
The essay should include relevant academic literature/research in support. This means your
explanations and discussions have to be supported with citations and/or quotes. Although you will be
able to identify relevant studies in the reference list in the lecture slides, you are strongly advised to
identify and collect other studies through own research efforts on google scholar and/or through the e
-journal portals within library gate (such as pro-quest, emerald, business source complete).
But you should further support your discussion with recent corporate examples (from the last three
years). Use brief vignettes of corporate examples, and not to overboard the essay with examples.
Please ensure your examples are relevant to the argument (s) you are making and are
sourced/referenced.
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Required Essay Structure and Content
Introduction (between 150 and 200 words)
Main section:
The main thrust of the essay should include a discussion on the following topics:
A. Explain and contrast the strategies to manage international political risk.
B. Explain and contrast the purpose and implications of two ethical theories for
managing ethics within international business.
C. Explain and contrast the various approaches to staffing (including the ethnocentric,
polycentric and geocentric staffing models, and the choice of women managers).
The space afforded to A, B and C should be fairly balanced but does not have to be exact.
Conclusion (between 150 and 200 words)