AC1.1 Analyse the different ways in which organisations operate and trade overseas.
- Explore the various ways organizations operate in overseas markets and employ people internationally.
- Consider trading in established, emerging, and new overseas markets.
AC1.2 Explain the different ways in which organisations expand their activities internationally.
- Investigate foreign direct investment (FDI) strategies.
- Analyze international mergers and acquisitions in home and overseas markets.
- Examine international supply chains.
AC1.3 Review the major alternative international organisational forms and their consequences for the management of people.
- Study multinational corporations, global not-for-profit organizations, and international strategic alliances.
- Understand international outsourcing, offshoring, nearshoring, and reshoring.
- Consider the role of people professionals in developing appropriate policies and practices for their organization.
AC1.4 Discuss major contemporary ethical issues in the field of international management and employment.
- Address managing corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, and governance in international organizations.
- Examine regulatory controls on issues such as child and forced labor, low wages, and freedom of association.
AC2.1 Compare the established political and legal systems in major global economies.
- Analyze varied formal institutional frameworks and their purpose.
- Compare political, legal, and judicial systems, business and employment regulation.
- Distinguish between liberal market, coordinated market, and command economies.
- Understand the increasing complexity of LME/CME/command economy distinctions.
AC2.2 Appraise institutional arrangements in different countries in the fields of corporate governance, training, welfare and trade unions.
- Examine traditions of corporate governance.
- Compare training and welfare systems.
- Study the role of trade unions.
- Understand the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
AC2.3 Critically analyse research concerning the ways in which workplace cultures vary around the world.
- Explore major models that map cultural diversity and critiques of these.
- Analyze international diversity in management style, employee expectations, approaches to communication, and business ethics.
AC2.4 Advise about the major ways in which people practice varies globally.
- Examine the major alternative models of people practice that operate globally.
- Consider debates about convergence, divergence, integration, and diffusion of people policy and practice.
- Understand ‘home’ and ‘host’ country influences on people practices in MNCs across the globe.
- Analyze the continued use of ‘host’ country practices if an established organization is taken over by an MNC.
- Study the reverse transfer of practices from ‘host’ to ‘home’ country and to other subsidiaries around the world.
AC3.1 Design an appropriate international staffing strategy, including for expatriate staff.
- Explore the major alternative resourcing strategies adopted by international organizations (ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric, etc.).
- Understand interacting with international labor markets.
- Focus on developing an effective global employer brand.
- Consider managing expatriates: reasons for employing expatriate staff.
- Address selecting and preparing people for international assignments.
- Examine remunerating and supporting staff on international assignments.
- Understand effective repatriation.
AC3.2 Plan the effective management of talent in international organisations.
- Consider international management development and careers.
- Identify the attributes of effective global leaders.
- Understand the role of the L&D function in supporting identification of global leaders and their continuing development.
- Focus on international succession planning and talent pools.
AC3.3 Justify the case for diversity and inclusion in international contexts.
- Address managing a culturally diverse workforce based in different locations and internationally.
- Consider tensions between home and host country traditions in terms of religion, ethnicity, and gender, for example.
AC4.1 Critically discuss the major challenges facing people practice managers in international organisations.
- Address balancing centralization and localization.
- Consider designing, structuring, and restructuring international organizations.
- Focus on managing change internationally.
AC4.2 Influence effective communication practice in international organisations.
- Focus on global employment relations policies and strategies.
- Improve upward and downward communication in international organizations.
- Understand that mechanisms for employee voice vary between countries.
- Consider working with trade unions internationally.
- Focus on international knowledge management.
AC4.3 Assess the effective management of performance in international organisations.
- Focus on selecting and implementing appropriate performance management systems.
- Address international reward management.
- Consider managing disciplinary and dismissal issues in global organizations.
AC4.4 Justify the need for flexible working initiatives in international organisations.
- Consider working time and holidays, work-life balance, and flexible working practices.
- Address maternity and parental leave.
- Understand people professionals working ‘around the clock’ due to time differences and positioning of ‘weekends’ across the globe.
