BU352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Employee Assistance Program, Gender Equality, Co-Determination
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Chapter 17 managing human resources in a global business. Workforce mobility the focus on managing the recruitment, relocation, and retention of employees who complete work-related tasks and activities outside of the core or primary head office or region of the company. These programs are enabled by technological advancements, globalization, tight labour markets, customer demands, and have a direct impact on company profits. Organization can improve profitability by 1-4% simply by making workforce mobility management a strategic priority and by managing mobility programs in a more integrated way. This is because disjointed management of mobility programs often results in employee confusion, aggravation, frustration, and disengagement. Thousands of canadian corporations with international operations are now relocating employees overseas on a regular basis. European market unification and the economies of brazil, russia, india, and china are burgeoning. Expatriates employees who are citizens of the country where the parent company is based who are sent to work in another country.
