Developing Training Schedule

Inthe section of this week's work on staffing,you looked at a number of brief CVs of candidates to fill the Indian country manager role for Delta Beverages. Assume the country manager in China were offered a different role and consequent to that move,Haziq Tengku (currently country manager for Malaysia) had been selected to take over as country manager in China.

Review Haziq Tengku's profiles in the case study material:Caligiuri,P.W.,& Lane, H. (2016) Selectinga countrY- manager for Delta Beverages India in Readings and cases in international human resource management: 6th edn.{pp.243 -248). Taylor and Francis.

You are the H R manager in Boston or Shanghai.

• If you were born inan even year (e.g.1992,1998) please take the role of the Boston HR manager.
  • If you were born inan odd year (e.g. 1991, 1999) please take the role of the Shanghai HR manager. 

Your task is to develop a training schedule for him,and if you think appropriate, his wife and/or family,while he is inyour region. Take into particular account the material on expatriate trainingconsiderations from p.256 in Vance and Paik (2015). Use the following information about Haziq when developingthe training schedule:

• Haziq has been promoted to country manager in China for Delta Beverages.
• This is seen as part of his career development ,with more senior roles likely inthe future.
  • Delta is headquartered inthe Boston area of the US.
• The China office is in Shanghai,where Haziq and his family will live, but the country manager needs to travelextensively throughout China.
• Haziq is excited about the promotion and has already started to study Mandarin via a PKU MOOC. Hewill visit Boston and Shanghai over the coming weeks for a full briefing and familiarisation before takingup his assignment.

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