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International Human Resource
Management
- General functions
- Managing human resources on global scale
- Implementing corporate global strategy
- Ethnocentric staffing approach
- Values, attitudes practices and
priorities of headquarters determine
the HR policies and practices
- Values, attitudes practices and
priorities of headquarters determine
the HR policies and practices
- Polycentric staffing approach
- Consideration of local environment
when formulating policies and
practices on HR area
- E.g. Managerial positions
--> host country
employees
- E.g. Managerial positions
--> host country
employees
- Consideration of local environment
when formulating policies and
practices on HR area
- Regiocentric staffing approach
- Focus on Region not local. E.g.
Region 'Europe'
- Focus on Region not local. E.g.
Region 'Europe'
- Geocentric/global staffing approach
- Optimal use of HR, policies developed at
headquarters and are consistent (all subsidiaries), no
adaption of local/regional concerns.
- Optimal use of HR, policies developed at
headquarters and are consistent (all subsidiaries), no
adaption of local/regional concerns.
- Factors for selecting approach
- National concerns
- Legal framework of host country
and Political volatility
- Legal framework of host country
and Political volatility
- Economic concerns
- Cost of living in host country
- Cost of living in host country
- Organizational concerns
- Stage of PLC and
internationalization of company
- Stage of PLC and
internationalization of company
- Cultural concerns
- Differences corporate and societal
cultures of headquarters and subsidiaries
- Differences corporate and societal
cultures of headquarters and subsidiaries
- Technological concerns
- Availability of skilled employees
due to technological advances
- Availability of skilled employees
due to technological advances
- National concerns
- Ethnocentric staffing approach
- Adopting labor practices to local requirments
- Managing human resources on global scale
- What and why?
- The development of human resource
capabilities to meet the needs on global
scale
- Major determinant of success in the global
environment
- The development of human resource
capabilities to meet the needs on global
scale
- HRM Areas
- Recruitment & Selection
- Recruitment: Process of attracting
qualified applicants for available positions
- Selection: Process of choosing qualified applicants
plus ensuring that the skills, knowledge and abilities
match the requirements of the positions
- Recruitment: Process of attracting
qualified applicants for available positions
- Classifying employees
- Parent-Country national (PCN)
- Host-country national (HCN)
- Third-country national (TCN)
- Important for determination of approach
- Important for determination of approach
- Parent-Country national (PCN)
- Performance evaluation
- Purposes: Evaluation and Development. Checking the
job performance of employee.
- Evaluation --> Compensation
and/or advancement decisions
- Focus on feedback to improve
performance
- Purposes: Evaluation and Development. Checking the
job performance of employee.
- Compensation and benefits
- Development of uniform salary systems, health insurances, pension funds, vacation and sick pay. Must be
competitive to attract and keep qualified employees and must take local market conditions into account but
consistency throughout the company as well.
- Development of uniform salary systems, health insurances, pension funds, vacation and sick pay. Must be
competitive to attract and keep qualified employees and must take local market conditions into account but
consistency throughout the company as well.
- Training and development
- Planning of effective learning processes, organizational development and internal
career development. International training programs --> (de)centralized).
- Planning of effective learning processes, organizational development and internal
career development. International training programs --> (de)centralized).
- Labor relations
- Assisting managers and employees to determine
their relationships within the workplace
- Assisting managers and employees to determine
their relationships within the workplace
- Recruitment & Selection
- Expatriates
- Selection
- Technically competent, Job related
competence, ability to adaptation, language
skills, knowledge of area/region.
- Technically competent, Job related
competence, ability to adaptation, language
skills, knowledge of area/region.
- Managing
- Cost of failure
- Compensation issues
- Benefits
- Allowances
- Incentives
- Taxes
- Cost of failure
- Cultureshock
- Definition: State of anxiety and
disorientation caused by exposure to a
new culture/environment
- Can form a significant barrier in
adjustment in performance
- Phases: Honeymoon > Culture Shock > Adjustment > Mastery
- Definition: State of anxiety and
disorientation caused by exposure to a
new culture/environment
- Dual-career expatriates
- Managing and creating policies in order to
make the separation of spouse/family easy
- Managing and creating policies in order to
make the separation of spouse/family easy
- Repatriation
- Return of home-country manager.
Readjustment with transition strategies.
- Return of home-country manager.
Readjustment with transition strategies.
- Definition: People living in a foreign country
- Selection
- Competitive advantage
- Era of globalization
- Technology and capital flow freely across national
and cultural boundaries
- HR critical strategy assets or factor of
production which is not easily mobile
- Free movement of labor
- Sustained competitive advantage: Recruiting from a global workforce talented personnel
who are able to manage technology and knowledge, motivate people in various worldwide
subsidiaries and exercise proper leadership and negotiating skills
- Main barriers: Language differences, cultural preferences and natural
propensities to stay and work in country of birth
- Main barriers: Language differences, cultural preferences and natural
propensities to stay and work in country of birth
- Increasing recruitment of women is one way to ensure continued success in the global work force
- Era of globalization
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