...mechanical, or other means, including photocopying and recording, or in information storage or retrieval systems, without written permission from the Centre for Financial & Management Studies, SOAS, University of London. International Human Resource Management Course Introduction and Overview Contents 1 Course Objectives 3 2 The Authors 4 3 Course Structure 4 4 Learning Objectives 5 5 Study Materials and Resources 6 6 Teaching and Learning Strategy 6 7 Assessment 7 International Human Resource Management 2 University of London Course Introduction and Overview Centre for Financial and Management Studies 3 1 Course Objectives This course aims to introduce you to the study and practice of International Human Resource Management (IHRM). To benefit from this, you need, of course, to have a basic understanding of Human Resource Management (HRM) itself. HRM has developed from personnel management, but instead of concentrating primarily on the hiring and firing of staff, it is the strategic and coherent approach to the overall management of an organisation’s most valued assets – the people working there who contribute to the objectives of the business1. Its main aim is to develop personnel policies that improve employee relations at work. This course will, therefore, begin with an examination of the history and nature of Human Resource Management, before embedding it in its international context. In Unit 1, you will learn about the main tasks involved in HRM: •...
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...Executive Summary This report was commissioned to prepare and equipped 6 senior executives with essential knowledge and facts about their foreign assignment for period of one year at the host country – Indonesia. In order to create a resourceful and talented team for the newly established offshore company, a motivated team which aligns with company objectives is the key point for remarkable success. Preferable candidates come from diverse background and they will be examined to ensure they have high level of interpersonal skills and adaptability towards foreign culture. Hence, detailed research about a country’s climate, culture, language and cuisine etc. will be brief and training will be provided too. This report also critically analysis about the structure of job design compare to headquarter in Singapore by using Hofstede national culture dimensions in order to find out the most suitable structure for the subsidiary. HR planning is essential during the staffing process to hire the best fit candidates, followed by training and development process to prepare the assignees for the success of foreign assignment. Lastly, report will discuss the design of remuneration package for the international assignees. A comprehensive compensation package is the key point to draw potential candidates’ attention and this must be well planned to ensure it meets assignees expectation. The financial equality of before- and after-overseas posting is important, thus, balance sheet approach...
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...Introduction Following the growth of globalization of economic and business, the international labor become increasingly significant for Australia. In the past. As you are no doubt aware, a company in Australia who has sponsored in the past, would be more open to sponsoring again in the future, as they are already comfortable with the sponsoring process. Australian companies who have advertised jobs in Australia with 457 visa sponsorship, are also likely to have been pre-approved by the Department of Immigration in Australia, as a qualifying 457 visa sponsoring organisation. Anyway, the subclass 457 visa program is designed for people who want to work temporarily in Australia. This program allows applicants to work for up to four years for a sponsoring employer and is restricted to people seeking to be employed in skilled occupations. There are three processing stages: sponsorship, nomination and visa application(Settle, 2011). This is the most commonly used program for Australian employers to sponsor overseas workers to work in Australia in skilled positions on a temporary basis. There are also special arrangements for employers in regional areas across Australia which allow them to sponsor workers into less-skilled positions that are not otherwise open to workers in cities and non-regional areas. So you are in Australia and have been working on your working holiday visa for an employer for 4 months or so, know that your 6-month limitation on working for the...
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...Balancing Global and Local Strategic Contexts: Expatriate Knowledge Transfer, Applications and Learning within a Transnational Organization J. Barry Hocking Michelle Brown Anne-Wil Harzing Version January 2007 Accepted for Human Resource Management Copyright © 2003-2007 Barry Hocking, Michelle Brown and Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved. Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing University of Melbourne Department of Management Faculty of Economics & Commerce Parkville Campus Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Email: anne-wil@harzing.com Web: www.harzing.com Balancing Global and Local Strategic Contexts: Expatriate Knowledge Transfer, Applications and Learning within a Transnational Organization Abstract In this paper we investigate how expatriates contribute to the transnational firm’s strategic objectives of global efficiency, national (‘local’) responsiveness, and worldwide learning. We focus on their knowledge applications and experiential learning, two assignment-based outcomes of potential strategic value to the firm. We assess how these outcomes are impacted by the expatriate’s everyday knowledge access and communication activities, measured by their frequency and geographic extent. Within our case organization, a prototype transnational firm, we find that the expatriates’ knowledge applications result from their frequent knowledge access and communication with the corporate headquarters and other global units of the firm. In contrast, their experiential learning derives from...
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...Market Entry Strategy Abstract This paper aims to study Lebanon’s market, which is a new market that is going to be entered by the Jordanian company, Mlabbas, in order to expand its business and become an international company, also it studies the Lebanese consumers perception towards apparel markets. The goal and the main objective of this paper is to create an accurate and realistic picture of Lebanon’s market as a whole including economic, political and cultural and social analysis as well as the customer opportunities and challenges needed for this expansion in Lebanon’s new market. Mlabbas’s unique products are studied in details in terms of describing, pricing decisions, channels of distribution decisions and promotion decisions. Further more, the areas where Mlabbas stores will be open, especially Downtown Beirut, is going to be mentioned and estimated for future support for new retail space in its market area. Table of contents CONTENTS | PAGE NO. | Abstract | 2 | Introduction | 4 | Part|- Market Analysis | 5 - 13 | Part ||- Market Entry Strategy | 14 - 20 | Conclusion | 21 | References | 22 | Introduction Market entry strategy is the arranged system for conveying goods and services to another target market and dispersing them there. In this project the Jordanian business, which is Mlabbas will expand its stores and business into Lebanon’s market in order to achieve its goal in becoming a bigger and an international company. Lebanon...
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...BAB 3 KONTEKS ALIANSI LINTAS BATAS DAN UKM Pengantar aliansi lintas batas Pentingnya strategis aliansi telah meningkat dalam proses globalisasi. Aliansi lintas batas adalah perjanjian kerja sama antara dua atau lebih perusahaan dari latar belakang nasional yang berbeda, untuk menguntungkan semua mitra. * Non-ekuitas aliansi lintas batas adalah kendaraan investasi yang keuntungan dan tanggung jawab lainnya ditugaskan untuk masing-masing pihak sesuai dengan kontrak. Masing-masing pihak bekerja sama sebagai badan hukum yang terpisah dan dikenakan kewajiban sendiri. Contohnya aliansi teknologi strategis internasional atau R& D aliansi serta perjanjian kerja sama di bidang fungsional yang berbeda seperti pemasaran atau produksi. * Mode ekuitas melibatkan pembelian saham asing investor langsung dari perusahaan di negara lain'. Termasuk pembentukan anak perusahaan, baik melalui investasi greenfield atau akuisisi, serta melalui usaha patungan atau merger. Yang terakhir ini biasanya melibatkan strategi kolaborasi jangka panjang, yang memerlukan dukungan praktek-praktek SDM yang sesuai.Mereka mewakili lintas batas berbasis ekuitas aliansi. Ekuitas serta non-ekuitas aliansi lintas batas menimbulkan tantangan spesifik dalam manajemen sumber daya manusia internasional. Seringkali, ini sangat penting untuk keberhasilan operasi internasional. Catatan Schuler dan Tarique, Beberapa isu-isu HR yang sangat penting untuk keberhasilan internasional atau lintas batas berbasis ekuitas...
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...This report critically analyses how the external and internal factors affect the strategies of M&S and modifies its business strategies. Even though M&S has good strategy and marketing plans they haven’t used it to their advantage. It also tells how the macro and micro environment affect their strategy and their plan. The report uses frame works like PESTEL, SWOT and porter 5 forces. It further investigates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of M&S. This report highlights on M&S planning, organising, and taking decisions. It further incorporates the history, business operation, and the treats and opportunities faced by the company. It also provides an alternative solution and offers recommendation which might help the company to compete in the market, by providing appropriate service to its customer’s .The main aim of this report is to evaluate how M&S can survive in this ever changing market Introduction: Marks and Spencer the Britain retailer (often referred to as Marks & Sparks by locals) is a general retailer that sells clothes, gifts, home furnishings, and foods under the brand name St. Michael in the UK, Europe, the Americas and Far East. The company also operates in the financial services segment. Marks & Spencer was started in 1884 by Michael Marks in the Leeds market. The company strived for value and low prices and worked for its development. By 1901, the company acquired 35 outlets and had a new partner in...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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...realities and introduced IHRM, this chapter describes international business strategy and how IHRM supports and enhances the international business strategies of the firm. The chapter starts with a general description of the process of international strategic management and then follows with an explanation of the evolution of international business strategy and describes how IHRM fits into the overall strategic management of the MNE. This includes describing the links of global business strategy to the performance of HR responsibilities in international business and discussing the outcomes that a strategically managed international business might expect from effectively tying together an international business strategy and SIHRM. The chapter then summarizes the findings of research studies on the nature and role of strategic IHRM. LEARNING OBJECTIVES * Describe the development of SIHRM and the process of international strategic management. * Describe the evolution of the MNE in terms of various stages of internationalization and the methods firms use to enter international markets. * Describe the process for developing MNE strategy and IHRM strategy and the relationship between the two. * The extent and nature of research into the practice of strategic IHRM. CHAPTER REVIEW OUTLINE I. Strategic International Human Resource Management: An Introduction SIHRM is the part of IHRM that focuses on creating and implementing IHRM policies and practices...
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...Introduction Staffing[pic] models are crucial to any form of business because there is a direct link between staffing models and organizational strategy. Good staffing models streamline organizations' strategic directions while at the same time improve employee productivity. Repeatedly, human resource managers and other administrative personnel complain about the lack of results after implementing changes in their staffing duties. • Staffing models are a representation of the relationship between staffing costs and time utilization by employees. Additionally, they also indicate the kind of activities that occur within the organization and why employees perform those duties and functions. Staffing models give managers a chance to critically analyze how employees spend their time in the organization. This also acts as a platform for assessing the most effective way of going about organizational duties. Four stages of the staffing process 1. “Prospect” - Joint interaction between the applicant and the organization 2. Recruitment – Identification and attraction 3. Selection – Assessment and evaluation 4. Employment – Decision-making and final match Corporate management philosophy is an important issue because it decides how a firm views the world in relation to itself and how it wants to manage human resources in different countries. HR manager at international level must not...
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...INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTGlobal Human Resources Management and Organizational Development | | Often one of a company's most expensive assets is its human capital, the human resources of the organization. The management of your human resources focuses on: * Recruitment and selection of employees who can succeed at their jobs and who will stay with your organization, and * Making sure that employees' abilities are optimally nurtured and developed so that the company can receive an optimal return on the investment made in these employees.Recruitment and SelectionThis is particularly challenging in a global organization where one of your biggest challenges will be finding, retaining and developing a superior global workforce. ITAP knows how to identify the "success factors" of a position…which is a key to identification of superior candidates. Successful companies know what the jobs entail and seek to hire those candidates who can be more successful/effective with the lowest amount of support. Well written job descriptions, andcompetency models that clearly delineate success behaviors make for effective selection and hiring. Understanding cultural differences in the recruitment process, the selection of candidates and what motivates employees in various cultures is crucial to the success of global organizations.Targeted Interview TechniquesIn addition ITAP can support your selection process using and teaching you to use Behavior Event Interviewing (BEI) or Targeted...
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...1.0 Executive Summary Gardenia bread activities are making flour product based in Shah Alam, Kuala Lumpur. The journey begins in 1984, when a group of housewives group together to make very delicious and interesting good looking low fat bread. Our keys to success are: 1. Integrate the value chain to enhance productivity and efficiency. 2. Strengthen the industry’s image. 3. Strive for the highest standard of quality. 4. Innovate and adopt the nutrition methods. 5. Leverage on health in nutrition. 6. Benefit from globalization including the export of nutrition products. 1.1 Objectives 1. Achieve an average sales transaction of RM 4.50 per customer within the first year. 2. Increase profit by 10% in the second year of business. 3. Long time plan is to build a cookie network chain that can not only compete but a market leader around the globe. Long term 1. To achieve high standard quality control 2. Build brand image and brand equity through effective marketing 3. Achieve sustainable supplies to the market 4. To produce dozens types of cookies in order to cover various market segment. 1.2 Vission One Good bread at a Fair Price 1.3 Mission GARDENIA BREAD SDN BHD wants to be to introduce the Malaysian Nutrition Industry and aims to:- * To provide bread to the population in Malaysia and also abroad at Shanghai, China. * To generating profits and higher return to owners. * Give satisfaction to our customers and the country our produce...
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...1. What are the strengths and weaknesses associated with each of the three candidates? The first candidate, Marie Erten-Loiseau, strengths include years of experience working for Trianon in both France and Germany, which means she is familiar with the organization’s culture and history. Another strength is that she has lead two successful projects in Poland and the Czech Republic, proving she has the ability to work in other countries. One reason that Erten-Loiseau may not be the best candidate is because the company may be looking for someone to be in this job for many more years, and since her husband is already semi-retired it may cause her to think about retiring herself. The second candidate, Janos Garbor, strengths include having a background in the production of cathode ray tubes and display systems technologies, which are the products they are trying to produve. Another advantage includes being Hungarian and having connections with national government officials, especially because Trianon does not have any history doing business with a Hungarian company. One characteristic that may be seen as a weakness is that he only has four years of experience working with Trianon. The third candidate, Sinead Marrinan-McGuire, strengths include working the exact technologies Trianon is trying to apply in the Hungarian join venture project. Another strength is that she has already met and impressed Alistair with her understanding of corporate level concern and strategic...
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...Running head: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT International Human Resource management Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Hofstede developed the theory of cultural differences to describe the different effects that culture could have on an organisation. He classified cultures of different countries into five dimensions. The first was power distance which expounded on inequality and how different nations viewed it. He maintained that inequality is inevitable in societies, but some societies allow it to grow so that there can be difference in power, prestige and wealth. The inequality is formalised through hierarchies in the organisation. The second dimension is the uncertainty avoidance which explained how societies dealt with risks that may occur in the future and how the members of the society yearn to achieve certainty. Another dimension was masculinity versus femininity. He explained that in masculine societies, focus is on dominance and competition while feminine societies focus on humility, a society where people help each other out and with a high level of cooperation. The forth was Individualism versus collectivism. Individualism is where an individual only watches over himself or his close family members while collectivism refers to where there is concern for the whole group in the society (Hofstede, 1987). The last dimension is Long-Term Orientation (LTO) which was developed in the 90’s due to the realization that the Asian cultures...
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...move towards a more globalized and more flattened world, the need for international human resources management increases. What makes international human resources management more complex than domestic human resources management is the diversity of the world whether it is regulations, culture, religion, or language. In IHRM, companies run into more external factors that define how the workforce is selected and/or replaced, (Rioux, Ph.D., Bernthal, Ph.D. & Wellins, Ph.D.). For example, there are stricter practices regarding replacing a workforce in the US compared to other countries in the world. Such laws are designed to work in favor of employees than the employer in the US like unemployment liability and equal opportunity employment regardless of gender, race, age, looks, etc., (Rioux, Ph.D., Bernthal, Ph.D. & Wellins, Ph.D.). In a way, IHRM may engage in HR practices in a host country that might violate the business code of ethics in a country like Saudi Arabia where the two genders are segregated in the workplace which may limit the company’s diversification of workforce gender-wise. Another factor that may further contribute to the complexity of IHRM is the cultural differences across the...
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