“prashant, I have greatnews for you!” the American CEO of the subsidiarytells sarkar at the end of 2009, “headquarters wants you to moveback to dallas.You’ll be in charge of strategy devel-opment for global expansion, workingdirectly under the group vice president. Isn,t that exciting? They want someonewith proven success. You are my best candidate. I don’t know what design theyhave for you after this assignment, but I suspect it’ll be highly promising.Don’t quote me, but I’d say you may have a shot to eventually replace me or thenext American CEO here. While I person-ally enjoy working here, my familysometimes still complains a bit about the curry smell. Or folks in dallas may eventually wantyou to go somewhere else. Frankly, I don’t know, but I’m just trying to help you speculate. I know it’s a bigdecision. Talk to neeli and the kids. But they lived in dallas before, so they should be fine goingback. Of course ,I’ll put you in touch with the folks in dallas directly so that you can ask then allkinds of questions. Let me know what you think in a week.”prashant, instead of calling his wifeimmediately, sarkar has decided to wait until he gets home in the eve-ning sothat he can have a few hours to think about this. An avid reader, he has placedan order for a copy of mike peng’s brand new global business. As acoincidence(or perhaps as an omen),the book arrives one hour after his meetingwith the CEO. Instead of starting with chapter 1, he immediately dives intochapter 14 on HRM. 1. going from dallas to new delhi, sarkar, with his Indianpassport, would be an HCN。With his green card, he could also be considered a US national andthus an expatriate. Now if he goes from new delhito dallas,would he be an expa-triate or inpatriate? What difference does that make?2. what questions should sarkar ask the people at headquartersin dellas?3. will neeli and the children be happy about this move? why?4. should sarkar accept or decline this opportu-nity? why?