INTERNATIONAL

HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT

OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

 TOPIC 9 :
ISSUES IN GLOBAL
HUMAN RESOURCES
Host country culture and
workplace environment

The mode of operation involved

The size and maturity of the firm

The relative importance of the

subsidiary
•The mode of technology and industrial
organisation
•Methods of union regulation by government
•Ideological divisions with the trade union
movement
•The influence of religious organisations on trade
union development
•Managerial strategies for labour realations in large
corporations
Components of Performance
Management

a) Competitive Assessment

b) Coaching and Development

Rewards management

HR Planning

Training and development

process

Relationship with strategy

a) Whole versus Part
b) Non-comparable Data
c) Volatility of the international environment
d) Separation by Time and Distance
e) Variable levels of Maturity
f) Headquarter-Subsidiary Interdependence
g) Ethical and Legal Issues
h) Market Maturity
Method of Performance Management

a) Performance Management of
Expatriates
b) Variables that influence performance
of expatriate
Compensation Package

Task

Headquarters’ Support

Host Environment

Cultural Adjustment
 TOPIC 10 :
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
AND NEW CHALLENGES
 Ethical
Relativism

Responses to
Corruption

Ethical Ethical
Universalism Absolution
• Formulation, communication,
monitoring and enforcement
• HR Professional expertise :
organisation culture, communication,
training, performance management,
leadership, motivation, group
dynamics, organisation structure and
change management.
• Ethical issues
• Develop self
regulatory practices
• Allow internal
consistencies
 Must expect managers from other
cultures to apply different criteria
in making ethical decision.
• Most frequent ethical problems
encounter by international managers.
• US enacted the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act
• The United Nation adopted the UN
declaration against corruption and
bribery in International Commercial
Transactions
 Respect Respect
Good
for Human for Basic Equity
Citizenship
Dignity Rights
Emphasis on Joint
ventures

Contractual Modes

Involvement Host
government agencies
a) Building a global culture towards an
integrated networked organisation
b) Leadership and managerial capability
c) Gaining management interest and
involvement in HRM
d) Optimum quality and depth of
managerial personnel
e) Managers have technical and
managerial skills
f) Increasing the extent and scope of
managerial talent
g) Depth of managerial talent
h) Development of global and local
training and development
i) Ensuring management succession
j) Sustainment and improvement of
performance
k) Implement of global HR systems
l) Establishment of total quality culture
and changing people’s attitudes
m)Linking HRM to strategic objectives.
Thank you..