International Human Resource Management : Understanding The Cultural Environment

Competing in global markets entail many factors and centralization of its human resource practices is certainly vital to improve global competitiveness and empower employees for global assignments. To achieve success in global marketplace, the challenge of all businesses regardless of their size is to understand global corporate cultural differences and invest in human resources which includes selecting and retaining talented employee, training and development whilst encouraging employees to be innovative and creative. Employees selected to work in foreign locations should be prepared beforehand with adequate cross-cultural training. For an organization to be successful in the international marketplace, it must be concerned with this fit from both an internal and

Bradley-Geist. When asked where she finds topics she made a list of different ways she looks: topics evolves over time, lots of reading to find trends or topics, watches different news stations, pays attention to different work situations that has found interesting, and talking with friends and coworkers (Bradley-Geist, 2015). This allows for topics to spawn from different areas, this provides confidence to search the world for topics and not putting strict restrictions on where to look for topics. After examining the title, the contents of “Recent developments and emerging challenges in international human resource management” the sense of exigence in IHRM is obvious. The word challenges indicates there are problems in the IHRM that are with out solutions. There are many current hot topics and gaps in IHRM in this special edition “Recent developments” they address many of them: role of institutional and cultural differences, national cultural differences in cross-border activities, cross-culture diversity management, expatriate adjustment and performance, and cultural differences between regions within

This has highlighted a crucial issue for international companies to be aware of the cross-cultural implications in the conception, design and implementation of the various market entry strategies for the Chinese markets, especially when considering the Human Resources Management strategies since Corporate Strategy will in turn determine the Human Resource (HR) strategy to be deployed.

Abstract: Human Resource Management is fast gaining popularity and its importance is becoming unavoidable, this is due to the fact that Human Resource Management plays a huge role in the growth of any company irrespective of its size. Unfortunately it is yet to achieve global standards or strategy of operation; this can be attributed to the various differences between environmental factors, employment attitudes, cultural

Briscoe D., Schuler R., Tarique I., (2011). Internatonal Human Resource Management : Policies and Practices for Multinational Entreprise.

In this changing world, our global business theories and literature have implications toward the future. The future of this growth and success depends largely on the key component which is Human Resource Management. So, we as researchers hope to enlighten and inform you as employers the significance of an effective solution that both understands your employees and is beneficial to your company. That is why we offer our recommendations in the end of this article based on our findings.

Needless to mention, HR policies guide various functions of HRM. HR policies of certain companies seem to discriminate on the basis of its diverse backgrounds of its workforce for example, sex, race, age, religion, education, sexual orientations and so on and so forth. The sources of the country of origin effect lies in the culture and institutions of the home country of the MNC. The mechanisms through which the effect manifests itself are the hiring of home-country nationals by the MNC, and the inbuilt administrative preferences of these host-country nationals in the organizational structures, procedures and processes of the MNC. The homogeneity of the home culture, substantive characteristics of the home country culture, size and openness of the home-country economy, the cultural and institutional diversity of the environments in which the MNC operates, and the international growth path of the MNC are often taken to impact on the strength of the country-of-origin effect. Often, cultural perspective has concentrated its attention on the

Effective cross-cultural management has to be grounded in a detailed knowledge of individual cultures. Discuss using examples from two multinational companies.

Human Resource Management practices and policies are in reality varied across countries, but what we read in literature is a universal approach towards HRM. There is a belief that some best practices will be successful everywhere and with increased globalization and know-how transfer these best practices will make HRM across countries more similar. However, according to the contextual approach HRM practices across countries will continue to be different due to

Therefore, the HR manager needs to collaborate with other operational managers to understand the success criteria and improve business results. The strategic approach to HRM implemented should be capable of creating a competitive advantage through the company’s most valued asset which is human skills. The two important factors organisations need to pay attention to while considering International strategy are cost efficiency and customisation. International Strategy is further subdivided into three segments based on the nature of the market – Global (Ethnocentric Orientation - uses uniform strategies across all business), Transnational (Geocentric view – Global strategies on major corporate issues but permits business unit develop local strategies on other issues) and Multidomestic Strategies (Polycentric orientation - Produces a diverse mix of strategies to adapt and meet needs of each business) (Stone, 2014).

This paper will explain how the challenge of the best performances project reported on this special issue to identify which human resource performances stood out transversely which countries and why. It will be determined as the universal best performances, or virtuously situation detailed performances that were pointless out of ethnic backgrounds.

Globalisation, as an integrated and independent world economy, has contributed to the rapid expansion of international trade and world’s economic growth (Paik & Vance, 2006; Mutsuddi, 2012). The increase presence of global firms is shifting domestic HR towards global HR in addition to carry out a wider span of HR responsibilities (Losey, Meisinger & Ulrich, 2005; Rao, 2010; Jie, 2011; Mutsuddi, 2012). The generation of cross-border labour market also had brought human resource management into an international context (Mutsuddi, 2012).

When conducting business in a foreign country, a company needs to consider several different business factors and challenges that might arise. As a company embarks on its venture in Indonesia, Human Resources department needs to be aware of the differences and key challenges that might arise. They need to be aware of key business challenges, key human resources challenges, and how to adapt some of the human resources policies and practices to culture/environment of Indonesia.

Abstract: As human resources management and organizational culture are closely related, it is very meaningful to study human resource management from the cultural and cross-cultural perspective. Effective management of cross cultural human resources is the guarantee of Chinese enterprises running successfully under cross cultural background and region. The article concerns that the following aspects should be understanding of the cross-cultural human resources management.

Cross-cultural management is the subject field management in a cross-cultural context. Cross-cultural management takes place when a manager handles someone from a different cultural background. This challenge in management is very common as businesses expand globally, hiring immigrants and work to increase diversity. It includes the study of the influence of societal cultivation on top management practices. Organizing a business in a diverse culture environment can be challenging but it is not something that cannot be achieved. Nowadays, some organizations have started special awareness programs in cross-cultural management so that they can work with less cultural issues and embrace the benefits that they gain from cross cultural management. However, there are many still fail to understand the importance of bringing individuals from diverse backgrounds together. Most managers think that by implementing such programs are just waste of time and resources.