Case study
Introduction
The case study tells about the future profitable growth of the Padi- cepat a Malaysian company. The company has instant food, beverages and baking products business. In this company have different technologies for marketing strategies. Judgment is needed to identify the growth of the company so they look after the PBIT. In the time of 1990s they provide expansion opportunities Malaysian company pedi-cepat planned export offices in India, Singapore and Japan bit it fails. After the crisis, they expanded to Europe and the Middle East. Expand to Oceana for the better growth. This report focused the international human resource management to the padi- cepat company.
Discussion
Padi-cepat a Malaysian company faced lots of international human resource management challenges they are:
National culture, expatriate adjustment, function and assignment failures, workforce diversity and labor relations, public infrastructure, health and lifestyle.
National culture
Multinational companies consider the culture is an important factor because they send employees to overseas companies to control and supervise the subsidiaries. It is one of the abilities to adjust the overseas culture. This adjustment will affect their assignments although it affects the organization. (strubler et al., 2011, p10). The employees of Padi-cepat should be aware about the cultural differences and adopt the culture and make profit to the company
Expatriate adjustment
According to Puck et
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