Your UK-based organisation is planning to open a maj; facility (eventually employing 5,000 people) in Thailan for which your team will be responsible. Senior ma agement has asked you to assess the impact that \(\mathrm{al}\) tural values will have on using traditional UK rewapractices for the HCNs there and to propose a comprehensive reward system for the new facility. Specifically, you are required to address the following issues:

- the pros and cons of replicating in the Thai context the large pay differences between more senior executives, mid-level managers, and the hourly workforce that apply in the UK context;

the possibility of using incentive pay programmes driven by individual performance; identification of the benefits that employees will place a high value on, and those they will place a low value on;

- identification of work rules or traditions that may be different from those in the UK.

In making your assessment, you should refer to Hofstede's cultural dimension scores for the parent and host countries, which are available at: http://www.geert-hofstede. com/hofstede_dimensions.php.