INTERNATIONAL HUMAN

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CASE STUDY- WithMODEL
regard to HR Practices of Google

MBA 4TH SEMESTER

Presented by: Neel Dogra
2131/21
MBA 4th Semester
CONTENTS

01. GOOGLE
History and Overview of the company

02. IHRM Model

Definition and Components of IHRM Model

03. IHRM Model of GOOGLE

Discussion of IHRM Model in the light of Human Resource
practices followed by Google
1.
.
 ABOUT

MULTINATIONAL CONGLOMERATE
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational
technology conglomerate holding company
headquartered in Mountain View,
California.
ALPHABET INC.
ESTD. 2015
It was created through a restructuring of
OGLE LLC Google on October 2, 2015. and became
the parent company of Google and
several former Google subsidiaries.

STD. 1998
ESTD. 2015
3RD LARGEST
Alphabet is the world's third-largest
technology company by revenue and
one of the world's most valuable
companies.
Subsidiaries of Alphabet inc.
 HEADQUATERS- ALPHABET INC. AND GOOGLE
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, United States

Mountain View,
California
2.
INTERNATIONAL

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

MODEL
.
P. V. Morgan defines International Human Resource
Management (IHRM) Model as, “the interplay among
three dimensions —
• human resource activities,
• types of employees and
• countries of operation.”
3.
A MIXED REGIME
.
 DIMESION APPROACH REASON

Region-wise
countries of Regio- Centric
distribution of
operation Approach
offices

Focus on recruiting
Types of Poly-centric
PCN’s at senior
employees Approach
IHRM MODEL followed level
by GOOGLE is a
Human Standardised HR
HYBRID VERSION of all resource Ethno-centric policies throughout
the approaches and best activities the globe.
practices.
 Types of Countries

Parent Country Host countries Third Country

California, USA 76 Subsidiaries Countries part of
Google’s Supply chain
outside USA and other Stakeholders.
REGIO-CENTRIC APPROACH
• Alphabet Inc. Vis a vis Google
believes in hiring employees
form the talent pool of Host
county itself.

• They focus on promoting Host

country Nationals to the
senior level, and also
encourages them to take
leadership decisions.

• For e.g. Sanjay Gupta is the

Vice president of Google-India
and Alister Mokoena the head
of Google-South Africa.
 Types of Employees

Parent country Host Country Third country

Nationals Nationals Nationals
For e.g. Larry Page, For e.g. Sayantani For e.g. Alistair Mokoena
Sunder Pichai sarkar, Sanjay Gupta
POLY-CENTRIC APPROACH
Employee Count
There were
contradictions with
regard to the Number
of Employees in
Google- INDIA

But there was

conclusive number
given by a research
analyst ‘Sebastian
Papp’
Human Resource Activities

PROCURE ALLOCATE UTILIZE

ETHNO-CENTRIC APPROACH
HIRING RESPONSIBLY
• To reduce the gender Gap
• To increase diversity
• To improve sustainability
• To increase Accessibility
Google follows fixed standardised policy for all
the major IHRM activities throughout the globe.
Allocation of work at Google-
Some best practices

• Focus on work life balance

• Flexi hours
• Proper training & Development
• Innovation centre – 20% rule
Google’s
Workforce
Utilization
Principles
Creating Conducive environment for all