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This 10-page paper discusses the steps of a fictitious American corporation must take with human resources when setting up operations in South Korea. The paper uses organizational theories outlined by Stephen Robbins and Geert Hofstede. Based on these theories, the paper makes recommendations on how this company can structure a human resources plan.
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integrating an indigenous workforce into the mores, philosophies is and values of a multinational corporation. This particular paper will focus on the human resources challenge that faces a Western
company seeking to do business in and Asian country. Awesome Crafts, Inc. wants to establish a crafts export business and South Korea.
The manager there is responsible for overseeing a team of three American citizens; and is also responsible for hiring 75 local residents as laborers and supervisors. Our challenge here
is to construct a human resources plan that takes into account the two different cultures -- the Western culture followed by Awesome Crafts, and the eastern culture practiced by South
Korea. We will attempt to craft a human resources plan with help from two texts. These are entitled essentials of organizational behavior
or by Stephen P. Robbins, and cultures and organizations, intercultural cooperation and its importance for survival by Geert Hofstede. Robbins book tends to focus more on the human resources
and organizational trends in general; while Hofstede addresses the importance of international and cultural knowledge when attempting to form a business overseas. Overview: Robbins Three Levels
In his comment about management, particularly management of change Robbins likens managing change in todays organizations as something that is equivalent to Whitewater rafting (Robbins, 1999).
Not only must the manager make sure his bow to manages to survive the violence of white-water rapids, the manager must also get people within the boat to work together
(Robbins, 1999). This is further complicated, as some crew members are added while others leave (Robbins, 1999). When it comes to Awesome Crafts Korean operation, this is complicated
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