Question

Read the short scenario below and answer the question.

Zensu Electric was established in $2022$ in Part Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It produces and markets all types of electronics goods in most of the Asian and Pacific countries. It has been one among the top five companies as for the level of technology and one among the top three Companies regarding marketing of the products in Malaysia. The company$$s policy and practices concerning human resource management are top in the country. The company$$s salary administration policies and practices were taken as guidelines not only by the other companies but also by various wage boards and pay commissions in the country. But this company has been struggling a lot because of a minor problem relating to administration of salary and benefits. The problem is stated hereunder. The company employed nearly $400$ national young graduate and post graduate engineers and $20$ expatriate engineers. These employees form the cream of the company$$s present human resource. The expatriate employees occupied higher position in all the departments including Human Resource Department. The company$$s salary policy and benefit policy were formulated mainly on the basis of the expatriate employee$$s desire. The base salary of the company is the same for both the expatriate and national employees. But expatriate receive additional allowances like international market allowance, educational allowance, settling$-$in allowance, car allowance, housing allowance and entertainment allowance. Thus, expatriate receives nearly $250\%$ more salary than the nationals doing the same job. The national employees demanded the management to pay equally with that of expatriates immediately. According to them, the pocket frustrates them severely.

Answer the following questions: $-$

$($b$)$ Imagine yourself as the HR manager, discuss ways on to solve the issues arises with the local and the expatriates as to the case above with appropriate solutions.

$(50$ marks$)$