This research is about ethical concerns for expatriates from subsidiaries of MNEs in Brazil and International Human Resources Management of those international employees. One of the most challenging tasks of IHR is managing the expatriates of an international firm. Since expatriates are a very valuable human resources asset for companies with worldwide operation for the skills they develop during their assignment abroad, it is crucial for these firms to solve the problems related to expatriate’s selection, training, compensation, performance appraisal, repatriation process, and the strategic method to manage expatriates. As such, in this paper, some practical recommendations and implications are proposed.

One of the main objectives of this research is to find the ethical considerations for expatriates from subsidiaries of MNEs in Brazil that apparently differ from those of the US. This paper also investigates the international human resources management (IHRM) practices for expatriates in Brazil. Brazil was selected because this is one of the so-called BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, China and India). This country will play a stabilizing role in overcoming the global crisis, which gives Brazil vast opportunities to emerge as a leader country. Although Brazil has recently delivered notable performance attracting multinational corporations and foreign capital, there are some ethical concerns for human resource (HR) personnel and management that can be an obstacle to foreign subsidiaries within it. These issues are contrasted between Brazil and the United States.

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