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INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
COMPONENTS OF
HRM
• Recruitment
• Selection
• Training & Development
• Performance Appraisal
• Compensation
• Labor Relations
INTERNATIONAL
HRM (IHRM)
• High cost
• High failure rate
•EXHIBIT 11.1 PAYING FOR
THE EXPATRIATE MANAGER
400000
350000
300000
250000
$ 200000
150000
100000
50000
0
Hong
Kong
Salary
Taipei
Tokyo
Home
London
Singapore
•REASONS FOR U.S.
EXPATRIATE FAILURE
• Depends on :
• assignment length
• cultural distance
• amount of required interaction
with local people
• job complexity/responsibility
•EXHIBIT 11.3 SHOWS A
DECISION MATRIX USED
TO SET PRIORITIES OR
DIFFERENT SUCCESS
FACTORS DURING
SELECTION
Assignment Characteristics
Greater
Expatriate Longer More Interaction More
Success Duration Cultural and Complex or
Factors Dis- Communica- Respon-
similarity tion sible Job
Requirements
with Locals
Professional/ High Neutral Moderate High
Technical
Skills
Relational Moderate High High Moderate
Abilities
International High High High High
Motivation
Family High High Neutral Moderate
Situation
Language Moderate High High Neutral
Skills
•EXPATRIATE TRAINING
•TRAINING RIGOR
Objectives: Develop
comfort with host country
national culture, business
culture, and social
institutions.
Techniques:
Experiential learning
exercises, role playing,
Mid- simulations, case
level studies, survival
Training language training.
Rigor
Objectives: General and
specific knowledge of
host country culture,
reduce ethnocentrism.
Techniques: Lectures,
videotapes, reading
background material.
Objectives: Provide
Low background information on
Training host country business and
Rigor national cultures, basic
information on company
operations.
•CHALLENGES OF EXPATRIATE
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
• Unreliable data
• Complex and volatile
environments
• Time differences and distance
separation
• Local cultural situations
•STEPS TO IMPROVE
THE PROCESS
• Ethnocentric
• Polycentric
• Regiocentric
• Global
•IHRM ORIENTATION AND
MULTINATIONAL STRATEGY
• Early stages of
internationalization =
ethnocentric IHRM
• Multilocal strategies =
ethnocentric or regiocentric
• Regional strategy = closer to the
global
• International strategy =
ethnocentric or polycentric
IHRM
• Transnational strategies = a
global IHRM
•CONCLUSIONS
• HRM functions
• IHRM challenges
• Expatriate managers
• The role of women in
multinational organizations
• Multinational strategies and
IHRM orientations