decisions for a new production facility recently purchased in a developing
nation. Currently, your company produces and packages a product in two
locations in North America; the new production facility is in a strategically
located country within a major geographic region and will distribute throughout
the region from that facility. In order to get the production facility up and
running, your team has to address the question of staffing, including the
factory workers, managers, and the director for the facility. Discuss what
information you need, what options do you have and what recommendations you
would make. Address the following questions from a global strategic perspective
as compared to a domestic perspective:
How should a company evaluate and develop a newly-acquired
local workforce?
Do you retain and retrain employees or find new employees?
When is it important to have local managers and a local
facility director?
If you don’t have in-house candidates for senior positions,
what do you do, especially if managers do not want to relocate from their home
country?
How do is learning enhanced with multiple locations?
How do you use personnel from successfully productive
facilities, on short term assignment, to help upgrade the skill levels in new
facilities?
