Name of Institution

Amity Business School

MBA –GEN, HR, EFT Sem-II
Human Resource Management
Name of Faculty
Dr. Preeti Yadav
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IHRM
IHRM is defined as the interplay between
the three important dimensions of human
resource management – types of
employees, human resource activities, and
the country of operations.
The process of procuring, allocation and
effectively utilising human resources in an
international business is called
International Human Resource
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Human Resource Activities

• Procurement
• Allocation
• Utilisation

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Types of Employees
• Host Country Nationals: The employees of
the company’s subsidiary who are the
citizens of the country where the subsidiary
is located
• Parent Country Nationals: The employees
(of a country or its subsidiaries located in
various countries) who are the citizens of
the country where the company’s
headquarters are located
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Types of Employees
• Third Country Nationals: An employee of a
company’s subsidiary located in a country
which is not his home country
Example- Mr. X an Indian citizen is working
for an American subsidiary in France

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Types of Countries
• Host Country: Where the subsidiary may
be located
• Home Country: Where the firm is
headquartered
• Third Country: Which may be source of
labour, finance etc.

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Global Selection Approach

• The Ethnocentric Approach: Parent
country nationals are selected for all the
key management jobs. eg. Procter and
Gamble, Philips, Toyota etc
• The Polycentric Approach: The positions
including the senior management positions
of the subsidiaries are filled by the host
country nationals

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Global Selection Approach

• The Geocentric Approach: The most
appropriate candidates are selected for
jobs from any part of the globe.

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The parent country nationals working in

foreign subsidiary and the third country
nationals are expatriates

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Selection Criteria for Expatriates

• Technical Ability
• Cross Cultural Suitability
• Family Requirement
• Language
• Country Requirement
• Multinational Enterprise Requirements

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