Issues and challenges of foreign

professionals in
What are the role of government play to
solve their problems
By Gobinath Chandaran
012015050698
Introduction
 Foreign professionals are considered non-resident
when they are in another country in certain period of
an independent nature under a contract for service
and includes a foreign expert who is either invited by
government bodies, statutory boards, or private
organizations to impart their technical know-how or
expertise in a nation, a foreign speaker/academic
conducting seminars or workshops, Queen's Counsels,
Consultants, trainers, coaches and an individual who
operates through a foreign firm.
 In Malaysia we are absence of numerous foreign
professional and because of this circumstance foreign
professionals are expected to committed activities in
Malaysian industry. Foreign professionals bring
changes in Malaysian industries but it doesn’t mean
that local professionals professionalism endangered
or should not being concern much.
Objectives
 1. To find out the challenges faced by
foreign professionals.
 2. To study on the contribution made by the
foreign professionals in all industry.
 3. To find out the importance of foreign
professionals.
 4. To identify the acceptance of their
involvement among our local professionals.
 5. To find out how the Malaysian government
support the foreign professionals.
 Literature review
1. Advances in International Management - Advantages
of Foreignness: Benefits of Creative Institutional
Deviance
2. Cross Cultural Management: An International
Journal - Cross‐cultural effectiveness of Western
expatriate‐Thai client interactions
3. Employee Relations - International human resource
management: overcoming disciplinary sectarianism.
4. International Journal of Manpower - The adoption of
Japanese recruitment practices in Malaysia
5. Journal of European Industrial Training - Career
aspirations of Malaysian research and development
professionals in the knowledge economy.
Importance
1. Increase the scale of economics
 contributing to the GDP growth and generating the foreign
exchange
 the economic development is smooth and more stable
2. To gain knowledge and transfer the knowledge and increase
the local’s knowledge
 Contribution of their knowledge toward our country will help our
country
 can lead a better service for the domestic consumers
3. Foreign business opportunity
 help the FDI (Foreign Direct Investments) to enter our Malaysian
market and will improve our Malaysian economy.
4. Enhance the national productivity and competitiveness.
 dedicated to their post when they are given extra task to do
5. Reasons for international assignments.
 to fill the position when a former employee resigns his job
HRM Challenges
1. Language 3. Career concern
remain in same post
 Because mostly Malaysian prefer to use
No increment.
Malay language
 Malay slang when they speak 4. Higher technical ability
 English pronunciation higher technical ability to solve a problem
or manage the problem
try to make fail the foreign professional’s
2. Development of social relationship suggestion.
 language and culture barrier 5. Cultural adjustment challenges
 they developing interpersonal Based on the food habit, time
relationships with their foreign management, habits and etc.
colleagues. It will be quite disappointments for the
foreign worker
Government role
 Cross cultural training
• training
 Low levy on foreign professional
• play an important roles in economics
 Should restriction on foreign professionals
• agreement contract
 Job performance selection
• giving promotion and increment
 Exchange the workers
• learn the skills and knowledge
• trains the local varies.
Solution of the challenges
 Solution on the Language
• proper training for the foreign professionals to learn the basic of Malay language for one to three month.
 
 Solution on the Development of social relationship
• training & briefing

 Solution on the Career concern

• priority to the foreign professional to their promotion and also to their increment.

 Solution on the higher technical ability

• should give equal priority and respond to the foreign professional’s suggestion  

 Cultural adjustment challenges

• the problems in time management, need to have some changes in working hour, and even food habits.
Findings

 1. I can get to know the challenges faced by foreign professional in Malaysia

 2. I get know about the contribution made by the foreign professionals in our
country.
 3. I found out how the Malaysian government support the foreign professionals
 4. I can find out the differences between foreign professional and foreign
workers
 5. I can understand about the importance of foreign professional in Malaysia
Conclusion

 Malaysia has professionals to run projects successfully from the beginning to

the very end.
 Yet involving foreign professionals in Malaysia’s industries is one alternative
to solve the professionals need.
 the foreign professionals are contributing their knowledge and skills to our
country to develop the local’s knowledge, contributing to the GDP growth and
generating the foreign exchange in order to ensure that the economic
development is smooth and more stable.