Unit VII Employee Benefits and Workplace Safety, Health, and Security
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Unit VII Study Guide
Chapter 13: Employee Benefits
Chapter 14: Workplace Safety, Health, and Security
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For this assignment, imagine you are an expatriate manager for a subsidiary of a major company headquartered in the United States. You are the only citizen of the United States working at this location.
Your employment is regulated by U.S. Laws – the employment of ALL the other employees is regulated by the laws of the country you are doing business in.
Use the laws/culture of the country you will be working in to create the PPT, do not use U.S. laws.
You are preparing a PowerPoint presentation to brief the CEO on your plan to address the safety issues specific to the country (of your choice) where you are working as the expatriate manager and these are your concerns. How are the laws in that country going to affect your ability to manage the workplace there and produce a profit?
Remember, U.S. companies generally have facilities overseas to save money. So you don’t want to have any of your solutions increase the cost to your employer unless you can make a case how its going to increase cost. Don’t throw money at the solution. Your going to have work again unless can show a business reason how that’s going to help the company make more money to spend money.
In your introduction, discuss four concerns you have as a manager in the workplace: benefits, safety, health, and global security issues. List one issue for each concern listed.
Benefits (For example, does the country’s employment laws require different benefits than the U.S.. Maybe more vacation time? Family leave? Is mandatory overtime legal?
Safety: think about potential concerns. Does the country have an organization like OSHA which governs safety? What kind of safety record does the country have? How are you going to keep your employees safe?
Health: again, what might be a potential concern? Does the country have universal healthcare? Or, is healthcare too expensive for the average worker? What about mental health – is that an issue?
Global Security: generally, we think about hackers getting into the company’s database and holding the database hostage for $$$$. You’ve probably read news stories about that happening to companies in the U.S.
Next, prepare a solution for each of the four concerns. Discuss how your solutions address the issues within the workplace. Discuss what would be the responsibility of the global leadership team.
Conclude your presentation with a summary of how you noted the needs of your global audience, how you will design and deliver the training for employees keeping in mind Geert Hofstede’s research about cultural differences, and your plans to assess its success. See below.
Be sure to include clear and specific speaker notes for each slide. Each slide should have speaker notes explaining each of the bullet points on the slide. Use paragraphing, at least one paragraph for each bullet point containing 5-10 sentences. Use in-text citations in speaker notes.
You must include a minimum of one image or graphic within your presentation. You can use the COUNTRY COMPARISON TOOL to compare the country you are using to the U.S.. HTTPS://WWW.HOFSTEDE-INSIGHTS.COM/COUNTRY-COMPARISONTOOL You must use at least two sources, with one being the textbook. Use in-text citations on PowerPoint if using visuals.
Your PowerPoint presentation must be at least 10 slides in length, not counting title or reference slides. Adhere to APA style when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Use the 6 x 6 PowerPoint guidelines. This means no more than 6 bullets per page and no more than 6 words per bullet point. The bulk of the presentation is in the speaker’s notes.
You can google Governments Sources. Stay away from blogs and Wikipedia.
Geert Hofstede – beginning p. 564
•Power-Distance (Low vs. High)—The degree to which societies accept that inequalities in power and well-being among members of the society are the result of differences in their individual abilities, both physical and intellectual, and their social status.
•Individualism (vs. Collectivism)—The basis of this dimension is the degree to which individuals are integrated into groups. Individualist cultures value individual freedom and self-expression and believe that people should be judged on their personal achievements. Collectivist cultures believe that the group is the primary unit of value, and the individual only has value insofar as he or she assists the group in reaching its overall goals.
•Masculinity (vs. Femininity) or Assertiveness (vs. Nurturing)—Hofstede used the terms masculinity versus femininity back in the 1960s. However, for political correctness, these terms have been changed to assertiveness versus nurturing. Masculine or assertive societies value performance/winning, assertiveness, competition, and success. Masculine societies value heroes and material rewards. Feminine or nurturing cultures, on the other hand, value relationships with others, interaction over winning, quality of life, and concern for others.
•Uncertainty Avoidance (High vs. Low)—Societies, like individuals, differ in their tolerance of risk. The uncertainty avoidance dimension “expresses the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.” Societies that are high in uncertainty avoidance will make attempts to avoid uncertainty—at least as much as possible. Cultures with low uncertainty avoidance can tolerate significant risk within their society and will not spend as much societal effort to protect their citizens.
•Long-Term Orientation (vs. Short-Term Orientation)—This dimension was not part of the original Hofstede model, but he added it after it became apparent that different cultures had differing concepts of past, present, and future. Cultures with a long-term orientation value saving, thrift, and persistence in working toward and reaching future goals. In cultures with a short-term orientation, we will see little intent to save for the future and a focus on immediate, or at least relatively quick, results.