W15 - International HCM framework

Process of managing people across borders in multinational companies

• Ensuring development and implementation HR Strategies, policies and practices

• Help companies to operate profitably in different countries

• Within context, culture, legal and economical interest of the company

• Globalization

• Environmental differences

• Cultural differences

• Convergence and divergence

1. Talent Management/employee branding

2. International assignments management

3. Managing international workforces

• Specify a set of rules and behaviors expatriates have to adhere to

• Specify how the exptratriate needs to translate the companeis interests in an international environment with possible cultural differences in making differences

• How many people are needed across multi national company

• Set out the sources of people available

• Action plans for recruitment, selectior or assignment

• Parent company will recruit managers, subsidiaries will recruit junior staff,

• Talent pool definition

• Identiying talen internally

• Recruiting talent

• Performance management

• Management development

• Career planning

• Distance between HQ and subsidiary affects performance

• Issues => Control of line managers, cultural differences, consistent rating results, level of maturity of subsidiary

• Developing a cultural lense

• Developing and motivatingfunctional cross cultural teams

• Building relationships

• Manage performance and conflict

• Integral partner of developing global strategy

• Develop process and strategies for management

• Help to understand people and cultures globally

• Identify key skill required globally for company

• Outsourcing (Stages 3-5) => Hard to manage safety and quality

• Barriers like taxes, production largely disappear

• Individual relocating from home base to pursue companies interests abroad

• Brings knowhow to foreign subsidiary

• Managed in pre-departure, assignment and post-departure

• When company wants to go more global, but knowhow abroad is insufficient

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• Ethnocentric approach

• Polycentric approach

• Geocentric approach

• Need international experience and cultural sensitivity

• Their environment needs to allow for overseas placement

• Information-giving approach

• Affective approach

• Impression approach