Critically evaluate the factors influencing MNC’s ability to transfer HR practices from one national context to another.
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globalization
• embeddedness of managerial models
• cultural convergence and divergence of HR practices
• institutions • standardization of HR practices
• transfer is not a smooth sailing- why? identify reasons that influence MNC’s ability
• for examples: cultures differences (power distance, languages); social factors, political pressures; industrial characteristics
Along with the trend of globalization, multinational organizations (henceforth MNCs) seek for appropriate human resource management (henceforth HRM) strategies to address and fulfill the needs for global efficiency, national responsiveness
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Through the effect of globalization, not only that local cultures were extended abroad, but heterogeneous cultures were incorporated and integrated into the existing corporate culture (Featherstone, M. (1995). In an attempt to discuss how cultural differences affect the way that MNC transfers its HR policies and practices, we first present the three general guideline on how culture shapes the way people perceive and react to HR policies: convergence, divergence or crossvergence.
The theory of cultural convergence underlines best practice HRM, which coincides with standardized HRM practices. It implies that individual cultures develops and through integration and incorporation, they become increasingly similar to one another, so HR practices can be generalized across countries without adaptation (Katz, H., & Darbishire, O. (2000). Under this theory, factors such as open communications and dissemination of the idea of western capitalism have facilitated the standardization of organizational activities and made it easier for MNCs to transfer HR practices. Specifically, effective communication would help the organization to discuss freely about how HR practices should be organized to achieve higher performance, and reach consensus before implementation. In addition, the widespread concept of western capitalism has encourage more
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In this essay will be examined three of the major external factors with which organizations have to face everytime and ,accordingly, these determine how it is shaped their HR agenda. It is a well-known fact that a company for its economic processes and to achieve its aims has to adapt itself assiduously to the changing conditions of the environment in which acts. The external contexts that will be evaluated in this paper are the economic, the political and the technological.
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Human resource management functions in multinational companies are incredibly complicated by the need to adapt policies and procedures related to personnel, to differences between the countries, which is one of the branches. In particular, the countries cultural differences, differences in economic development and legal systems may require an international company adaptation programs of hiring, firing, training and remuneration for
According to Koster (2012), “For consistent policies, standardization is imperative” (para 14). Nevertheless, the HR restructuring taking place at IBM is moving in a different direction from that of the Coca-Cola Company. For an organization with as large a global footprint as that of IBM’s, a traditional HR approach, like that at the Coca-Cola Company, was no longer tenable and a structural change was necessary.
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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.
A rapidly changing business environment due to technological changes and the impacts of globalization has resulted in shift of human resources paradigms (Khan, 1997). In every organization
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
That is why intercultural management cannot be ignored when it comes to the organization performance, and the ‘universal best practice’ approach to HRM have to be critically considered because what is appropriate to a specific environment will not systematically be for another.
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).