Ihrm

International Human Resource Management

Managing people in a multinational context

Chapter Objectives

• Define key IHRM terms • Review expatriate management evolution • Outline differences between domestic and international HRM • Discover the increasing complexity and potential challenges of current IHRM

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Terms

HRM IHRM HCN PCN TCN NAFTA UNCTAD

MNE culture shock emi-etic distinction

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expatriate inpatriate

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Inter-relationships between approaches to a field

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Defining HRM

An organization’s HRM activities include: 1. Human resource planning 2. Staffing (recruitment, selection, placement) 3. Performance management 4. Training and development 5. Compensation (remuneration) and benefits 6. Industrial relations

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Inter-relationships between approaches to the field

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International assignments create expatriates

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Differences between domestic HRM and IHRM

IHRM complexity can be attributed to six factors: 1. Human resource planning 2. Staffing (recruitment, selection, placement) 3. Performance management 4. Training and development 5. Compensation (remuneration) and benefits 6. Industrial relations

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Variables that moderate differences between domestic and international HRM

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Laurent’s steps to truly international HRM

1. Recognize that one’s own HRM reflects home culture assumptions and values. 2. Recognize that one’s own peculiar ways are neither universally better nor worse than others - just different and likely to exhibit strengths and weaknesses, particularly abroad. 3. Recognize that organization’s foreign subsidiaries may prefer other ways to manage people – ways that are neither intrinsically better nor worse, but possibly more effective locally. 4. Headquarters...