Professional Documents
Culture Documents
International HRM
Session Objectives:
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So what is International HRM?
• Most large organisations are staffed by a diverse mix of people from different
nationalities, ethnicities and cultures
• International markets are ‘vital ground’ for big businesses in order to stay
competitive
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Issues Influencing International HRM
• Most experience comes from large Multi-National Corporations
• Productivity levels
• Utilisation of labour
Key debates of HRM and Internationalisation
• Do we have a strategy for becoming international?
• Strategic thinking
Perlmutter’s International Staffing (EPRG)
Model(1969)
• Ethnocentric – Home country management style and appraisal criteria
are superior. Only parent country nationals considered suitable for
management positions at home and abroad.
Brewster (2011)
Debate it…
• What are the advantages of employing a UK manager
(expatriate) to run our foreign workplace instead of a local
manager from the host country?
Brewster et al (2011)
Some possible disadvantages of using an
expatriate manager
• Cultural shock
Brewster et al (2011)
Questions so far?
• Planning
• Selection
• Preparation
• Adjustment
• Rewards
• Performance measurement
• Repatriation
Brewster et al (2011)
Planning – Assignment Objectives
Possible Examples
• Cultural awareness
• Family situation
Preparation
• Briefings
• Visits
• Shadowing
Adjustment Model (Black and Stephens 1989)
• Interaction
• General adjustment
• Work adjustment
• Re-entry counselling
• Employee debriefings
• Succession planning
Brewster et al (2011)
Issues
• Much research was originally based on North American MNCs,
their attitudes and methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KphEXAf4yMA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-44JKRqapY
Questions so far?
Deal, T.E. and Kennedy, AA (1982) Corporate cultures: the rites and rituals of
corporate life, Harmondsworth, Penguin.
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References
Mankin D (2009). Human Resource Development. Oxford; Oxford University
Press.
Northouse, PG (2015). Leadership: Theory and Practice. 7th Ed. London. Sage
Publications Ltd.
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