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Chapter One: Strategic Implications of Dynamic HRM Environment

Definitions:

• Global Village: Concepts in which telecommunication and transportation technologies have essentially reduce time and distance effects to produce a single worldwide community.

• Multinational corporations (MNCs): Corporations with significant operations in more than one country.

*Human Resource Managers (HRM) needs to understand societal issues (such as status) that might affect operations in another country.

• The reason is because each country has different laws.

o Example: It is against the law for employer’s to take action against employees solely on the basis of an employee’s age.

• Categories of Culture (Variables) Dimensions of a country’s environment

o Status Differentiation

o Societal Uncertainty

o Assertiveness

1. Not all HRM theories and practices are universally applicable to managing human resources around the world.

2. HRM must take cultural values into account when trying to understand the behavior of people from different countries as well as those in different countries.

*Alvin Toffler’s Three Waves of modern civilization

• Agriculture

• Industrialization

• Information

o Knowledge Workers- individuals whose jobs are designed around the acquisition and application of information.

* Why the Emphasis on Technology

• Technology- includes any equipment, tools, or operating methods designed to made work more efficient.

* How Technology Affects HRM Practices

• Work and provide support in what have become integrative communication centers.

o Recruiting

▪ Disseminating info. To individuals is one of the most critical aspects of recruiting

▪ In today’s society everything is usually done on the company’s online website. (E.g. Monsers.com)

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