International HRM

Definition
-. Managing people in multinational companies
-. Involves the worldwide management of people not just expatriates

Strategy Defined:
Process of ensuring that HR strategies, policies and practices are developed and implemented
that will help the company operate profitably in a number of different countries and ensure
each unit operate effectively within its context – its culture, legal, political and economic
factors that affect it.

Issues in International HRM

-. Globalization
-. Enviromental differences
-. Cultural Differences

Global HR policies & practices

Research conducted by Brewster et al (2005) identified 3 process that constitute global HRM:
1. Talent management/employee branding
2. International assignments management
3. Managing an international workforce

Managing Expatriates
= Is a major factor in determining success ir failure in an international business.

International Reward Management

Factors that are likely to impact on the design of reward systems as suggested by Bradley et
al (1999) are:
1. Corporate culture of the multinational enterprise
2. Expatriate and local labour markets
3. Local culture sensitives
4. Legal and institutional factors

Multicultural working (Briscoe et al (2012, p413)

-. Contributes as an integral partner in formulating the global strategy for the firm
-. Develop processes and concepts for top management as they develop the global strategy
-. Help top management to understand the people implications of globalization
-. Identify key skills required in the global organization both line and HR management
-. Share the responsibility for HRM with line managers.

Stages of international improvement

-. Expatriate-citizen of one country
-. Lives and work in another country

Multinational Corporation (MNC)

-. Firm with assembly and production facilitates in several regions in the world
Transactional Corporation
-. Firm with highly decentralized \operations in many countries
-. Has little allegiance to its country of origin
-. Weak toes to any given country.

-. Outsorcing
-. Use extensively by firms in stages 3 to 5
-. Changelles include
-. Online security
-. Safety issues
-. Client complaints

Falling barriers
= Trade, production, service and finances barriers largely disappeared