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    Human Resource

    Management
    ELEVENTH EDITION

    GARY DESSLER

    Part 5 | Employee Relations

    Chapter
    17

    Managing Global Human Resources

    2008 Prentice Hall, Inc.


    All rights reserved.

    PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie Cook


    The University of West Alabama

    After studying this chapter, you should be able to:


    1. List the HR challenges of international business.
    2. Illustrate how intercountry differences affect HRM.
    3. Discuss the global differences and similarities in HR
    practices.
    4. Explain five ways to improve international assignments
    through selection.
    5. Discuss how to train and maintain international
    employees.

    2008 Prentice Hall, Inc. All

    172

    HR and the Internationalization of Business


    The Global Challenges
    Coordinating market, product, and production plans

    on a worldwide basis.
    Creating organization structures capable of

    balancing centralized home-office control with


    adequate local autonomy.
    Extending HR policies and systems to service

    staffing needs abroad.

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    173

    Intercountry Differences Affecting HRM


    Cultural
    Factors

    Economic
    Systems

    International
    Human Resource
    Management

    Legal and Industrial


    Relations Factors

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    174

    Global Differences and Similarities


    in HR Practices
    Personnel
    Selection
    Procedure

    Use of Pay
    Incentives

    International
    Human Resource
    Management

    Purpose of
    Performance
    Appraisal

    Training and
    Development
    Practices

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    175

    How to Implement a Global HR System


    Best practices for making a global HR system
    more acceptable to local managers:
    1. Remembering that global systems are more

    accepted in truly global organizations.


    2. Investigating pressures to differentiate and

    determine their legitimacy.


    3. Working within the context of a strong corporate

    culture is best.

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    176

    A Global HR System (contd)


    Best practices for developing a more effective
    global HR system:
    Form global HR networks that make local HR

    managers a part of global teams.


    Remember that its more important to standardize

    ends and competencies than specific methods.

    Best practices for implementing the global HR


    system:
    Remember, You cant communicate enough.
    Dedicate adequate resources for the global HR effort.

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    177

    Staffing the Global Organization (contd)

    Top Management Values


    Ethnocentric

    International
    Staffing
    Policy

    Polycentric
    Geocentric

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    Staffing the Global Organization (contd)

    Inability of Spouse
    to Adjust

    Personality

    Personal
    Intentions

    Why Expatriate
    Assignments
    Fail

    Family
    Pressures

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    Inability to Cope
    with Overseas
    Responsibilities

    Lack of
    Cultural Skills

    179

    Staffing the Global Organization (contd)


    Realistic Previews

    Careful Screening

    Helping Expatriate
    Assignments Succeed

    Improved Orientation

    Cultural and Language Training

    Improved Benefits Packages

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    Selecting Expatriate Managers


    Adaptability Screening
    Assessing the assignees (and spouses) probable

    success in handling the foreign transfer.


    Overseas Assignment Inventory

    A test that identifies the characteristics and attitudes


    international assignment candidates should have.

    Realistic Previews
    The problems to expect in the new job, as well as the

    cultural benefits, problems, and idiosyncrasies of the


    country.

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    Compensating Expatriates
    The Balance Sheet Approach
    Home-country groups of expensesincome taxes,

    housing, goods and services, and discretionary


    expensesare the focus of attention.
    The employer estimates what each of these four

    expenses is in the expatriates home country, and


    what each will be in the host country.
    The employer then pays any differences such as

    additional income taxes or housing expenses.

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    1712

    International Labor Relations


    Characteristics of
    European Labor
    Relations

    Industry-Wide
    Centralization

    Employer
    Organization

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    Multiple Union
    Recognition

    Content and
    Scope of
    Bargaining

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    KEY TERMS
    codetermination
    expatriates (expats)
    home-country nationals
    third-country nationals
    offshoring
    ethnocentric
    polycentric
    geocentric
    adaptability screening
    foreign service premiums
    hardship allowances
    mobility premiums

    2008 Prentice Hall, Inc. All

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