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COMPONENTS OF HRM . Recruitment Selection Training & Development Performance Appraisal Compensation Labor Relations. INTERNATIONAL HRM. Basic HRM issues remain Must choose a mixture of international employees How much to adapt to local conditions?.
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COMPONENTS OF HRM • Recruitment • Selection • Training & Development • Performance Appraisal • Compensation • Labor Relations
INTERNATIONAL HRM • Basic HRM issues remain • Must choose a mixture of international employees • How much to adapt to local conditions?
EMPLOYEES IN MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Local country nationals (LCNs) • Expatriate workers or home country nationals (HCNs) • Third country nationals (TCNs)
IHRM ORIENTATIONS • Ethnocentric • Polycentric • Regiocentric • Global
IHRM ORIENTATION AND MULTINATIONAL STRATEGY • Early stages of internationalization = ethnocentric IHRM • Multilocal strategies = ethnocentric or regiocentric • Regional strategy = closer to the global
International strategy = ethnocentric or polycentric IHRM • Transnational strategies = a global IHRM
MULTINATIONAL MANAGERS • Host country or expatriate?
USING HOST COUNTRY MANAGERS • Do they have the expertise for the position? • Can we recruit them from outside the company?
USING EXPATRIATE MANAGERS • Do parent country managers have the appropriate skills? • Are they willing to take expatriate assignments? • Do any laws affect the assignment of expatriate managers?
IS THE EXPATRIATE WORTH IT? • High cost • High failure rate
REASONS FOR U.S. EXPATRIATE FAILURE • Spouse fails to adapt • Manager fails to adapt • Other problems within the family • Personality of the manager • Level of responsibilities
Lack of technical proficiency • No motivation for assignment
MOTIVATIONS TO USE EXPATS • Managers acquire international skills • Coordinate and control operations dispersed activities • Communication of local needs/strategic information to headquarters
KEY EXPATRIATE SUCCESS FACTORS • Professional/technical competence • Relational abilities • Motivation • Family situation • Language skills • Willingness to accept position
PRIORITY OF SUCCESS FACTORS • Depends on : • Assignment length • Cultural distance • Amount of required interaction with local people • Job complexity/responsibility
EXHIBIT 11.5 SHOWS A DECISION MATRIX USED TO SET PRIORITIES OR DIFFERENT SUCCESS FACTORS DURING SELECTION
TRAINING RIGOR The extent of effort by trainees and trainers required to prepare the trainees for expatriate positions
LOW RIGOR TRAINING • Short time period • Lectures • Videos on local culture • Briefings on company operations company operations
HIGH RIGOR TRAINING • Lasts over a month • Experiential learning • Extensive language training • Often includes interactions with host country nationals
EXHIBIT 11.6 SHOWS VARIOUS TRAINING TECHNIQUES AND THEIR OBJECTIVES AS THE RIGOR OF THE CROSS- CULTURAL TRAINING GROWS
EXHIBIT 11.8 SHOWS SOME OF THE TRAINING CONTENT THAT HELPS SUPPORT A COMPANY'S MULTINATIONAL STRATEGY
CHALLENGES OF EXPATRIATE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL • Unreliable data • Complex and volatile environments • Time differences and distance separation • Local cultural situations
STEPS TO IMPROVE THE PROCESS 1. Fit the evaluation criteria to strategy. 2. Fine tune the evaluation criteria 3. Use multiple evaluators with varying periods of evaluation
EXHIBIT 11.9 • Shows several sources of information a superior or the HRM professionals may use to evaluate an expatriate managers
THE BALANCE SHEET APPROACH • Provides a compensation package that equates purchasing power
BALANCE SHEET COSTS • Allowances for cost of living, housing, utilities, furnishing, educational expenses, medical expenses, club memberships, and car and/or driver expenses
OTHER APPROACHES • Parent country wages everywhere • Wean expatriates from allowances • Pay based on local or regional markets • Cafeteria selection of allowances • Global pay systems
THE REPATRIATION PROBLEM • Difficult for many organizations • "Reverse culture shock" • Expatriates must relearn own national and organizational culture • Includes whole family
STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL REPATRIATION PROVIDE: • A strategic purpose for repatriation • A team to aid the expatriate • Home country information sources • Training and preparation for the return • Support for expatriate and family
INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS FOR WOMEN TWO IMPORTANT "MYTHS" • Myth 1: women do not wish to take international assignments • Myth 2: women will fail in international assignments because of the foreign culture's prejudices against local women
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN EXPATRIATES • Foreign not female • Emphasize nationality not gender • The woman's advantage • Strong in relational skills • A wider range of interaction options
CONCLUSIONS • HRM functions • IHRM challenges • IHRM orientations • Expatriate managers • The role of women in multinational organizations