International Human Relations Case Study

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1. Examine the changes in the HRM policy as the firm transcends across its national borders?
In recent years due to the factors like globalization and removal of trade restrictions have created fierce competition in the domestic market for the well-established domestic firms. So, this competition has encouraged many domestic producers to enter into the international business through exporting their product to the different parts of the world or licensing or joint ventures to gain higher profit. By following the paths of international business may encounter the new challenges that are coming along with international human resource management. International human resource management is the set of distinct activities, functions and processes …show more content…

In international context firms may have to use new techniques that are not aware of domestic market. Firstly, the firms should establish the bargaining rules. Many international firms try to replicate their parent country work practices in the host country. This has created conflict with the host country’s traditional work practices and trade unions have started to bargain. .so it is important to get union agreement to changes in work rules before committing to an investment. Secondly, international firms sometimes need to lobby by threatening to move the operation to other countries. Thirdly, it is important to have codes of conduct to deal with industrial relation issues. The importance of this code of ethics have increased due to factors like development of universal standard called the Social Accountability 8000. By having the own code of conduct will help to follow this …show more content…

Now this has become critical due to increasing number of international assignments. Yet, this has placed a great challenge for international firms HR practitioners. In order to minimize these, they are coming up with different HRM functions that will help employees, which are from different cultural backgrounds to work together. One of these critical function is expatriate’s pre-departure training

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