International human resource management 6e introdcution

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International Human Resource Management

Managing people in a multinational context

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international HRM

potential challenges of current IHRM

Chapter Objectives

Terms

MNE

culture shock

emi-etic distinction

HCN PCN TCN

NAFTA UNCTAD

expatriate inpatriate HRM

IHRM

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Inter-relationships between approaches to a field

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Defining HRM

An organization’s HRM activities include:

1 Human resource planning

2 Staffing (recruitment, selection, placement)

3 Performance management

4 Training and development

5 Compensation (remuneration) and benefits

6 Industrial relations

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Inter-relationships between approaches to the field

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International assignments create expatriates

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Differences between domestic HRM and IHRM

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IHRM complexity can be attributed to six factors:

1 Human resource planning

2 Staffing (recruitment, selection, placement)

3 Performance management

4 Training and development

5 Compensation (remuneration) and benefits

6 Industrial relations

Variables that moderate differences between domestic and international HRM

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Laurent’s steps to truly international HRM

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1 Recognize that one’s own HRM reflects home culture

assumptions and values

2 Recognize that one’s own peculiar ways are neither universally

better nor worse than others - just different and likely to exhibit strengths and weaknesses, particularly abroad

3 Recognize that organization’s foreign subsidiaries may prefer other

ways to manage people – ways that are neither intrinsically better nor worse, but possibly more effective locally

4 Headquarters willingness to acknowledge cultural differences and

steps to make them discussable and therefore usable

5 Build shared genuine belief that cross-cultural learning will result

in more creative and effective ways of managing people

1-1 World top ten non-financial transnational corps.,

ranked by transnational index

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1-2 World top ten non-financial transnational corps.,

ranked only by foreign assets

Strategic HRM in multinational enterprises

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Discussion Questions

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1 What are the main similarities and differences between

domestic and international HRM?

2 Define these terms: IHRM, PCN, HCN, and TCN.

3 Discuss two HR activities in which a MNE must engage

that would not be required in a domestic environment.

4 Why is a greater degree of involvement in employees’

personal lives inevitable in many IHRM activities?

5 Discuss at least two of the variables that moderate

differences between domestic and international HR

practices.