Exercise 1: The impact of strikes and lockouts on business activities can be sub

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Exercise 1:
The impact of strikes and lockouts on business activities can be substantial. Since your manufacturing company is planning to expand its operations in the Asian markets, you have to identify the countries where strikes and lock-outs could introduce interruptions to your operations. Using labor statistics from the International Labour Organization (ILO) to develop your report identify the three Asian countries with the highest number of strikes and lockouts, as well as the total number of lost worker days. What types of precautions can you company take to prevent interruptions from occurring in these markets?

Exercise 2:

You work in the human resource department at the head-quarters of a multinational corporation. Your company is about to send a number of managers overseas as expatriates (or expats) to France and New Zealand. You need to create an executive summary evaluating, comparing, and contrasting the possible issues expats may encounter in these two countries. Your manager tells you that a tool called Expat Explorer created by HSBC can assist you in your task.

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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
ORGANIZATION

The ILO is the only major organization originally part of the League of Nations system that has existed from the founding of the League in 1919 down to the present day. Its name is actually too narrow, for it is an organization neither of nor for labor alone. As the late James T. Shotwell, president emeritus of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, pointed out long ago, the ILO might more accurately have been termed an International Organization for Social Justice. Furthermore, as the organization's responsibilities have widened, it has given increasing attention to measures designed to help raise general standards of living. Its work now even includes activities such as productivity training courses for management personnel and high government. Michel Hansenne, Director General of the ILO from 1989 to 1999, said, "Employment

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