GMS 520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ethnocentrism, Bombardier Talent 2, Society For Human Resource Management

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 520
• Professor: Glenn Asano

Document Summary

Challenges in assigning, recruiting, retaining managers to maintain ops in emerging markets where demand outstrips supply. Other challenges: growing workforce mobility, trend of outsourcing employees. International hrm (ihrm) major challenges are: enhancing global business strategy, aligning hr issues with business strategy, designing and leading change, building global corporate culture, staffing orgs with global leaders. Global environment: other factors easily replicated but caliber of staff will become only source of sca. Hrm"s two way role in determining and implementing strategy. Can be hard to harmonize ihrm practices around the world bec e. g. differences in local laws, cultural norms, accepted business practices. Important to ihrm functions: managing expatriates, ie employees assigned to country. Decide on staffing policy sustainable for type of business, global strategy, geographic locations. Key issues: difficulty of control in geographically dispersed operations, need for local decisionmaking independent of home office, suitability of manager from alternate sources. Important to note interdependence of structure, strategy, and staffing.