1.0 Introduction
The purpose of this report is to give advice to hotelier Mr Liam Glavey who plans to expand his businesses overseas. This report looks at different aspects of international assignments on the following issues: Recruitment and selection of employees for international assignments, Types of international employees, Expatriate roles and characteristics of expatriate managers, Expatriate failure, Repatriation issues, Cross-Cultural Training (CCT), International Management Development, International Compensation Management and lastly International Performance Management. The first section reviews the recruitment and selection of employees for international assignments and looks in some detail at the factors that employers follow when
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Recruitment is defined as the process of obtaining and searching for potential job candidates so that the organisation can choose the most appropriate to fill the job needs. While, selection is whereby information is gathered for the purposes of deciding and evaluating who should be hired for certain (particular) tasks. As outlined in the case study that Mr Liam Glavey plans to run the hotels abroad in the same manner as his Irish hotels, it is important he realises that the differences that will arise from international operations which will be so different from the way he operates back home. As much as there is some similarity in the culture among European countries where his business will be involved in but the Asian culture is somewhat different as result it is necessary for Mr Liam Glavey to take into consideration some of these variables to assist him selecting the best candidate who is going to be suitable for the international assignment. Because the assignment is for a long period, it is necessary that Mr Liam Glavey looks into these variables carefully as they can determine the success / failure of his expansion
Competing in global markets entail many factors and centralization of its human resource practices is certainly vital to improve global competitiveness and empower employees for global assignments. To achieve success in global marketplace, the challenge of all businesses regardless of their size is to understand global corporate cultural differences and invest in human resources which includes selecting and retaining talented employee, training and development whilst encouraging employees to be innovative and creative. Employees selected to work in foreign locations should be prepared beforehand with adequate cross-cultural training. For an organization to be successful in the international marketplace, it must be concerned with this fit from both an internal and
The recruitment and selection process can affect the efficiency and effectiveness of any organisation so it is crucial that the right person is employed for the job. The selection process also involves the image as an employer and its ability to attract quality staff. When an individual is applying for a job, he/she will need to undergo some steps.
Performance criteria and goals are best established by combining the values and norms of each local environment with the home-office’s performance standards. An individual country profile should be developed and should take into account the foreign subsidiary’s environment. This profile should be used to review any factors that may have an effect on the expatriate employee’s performance. Such factors include language, culture, politics, labor relations, economy, government, control, and communication.
Working for respectable companies based in America and Great Britain can carry wonderful benefits. The Human Resource Department must give attractive packages to appeal to skilled workers when expanding outside of the US. Bridging the gap when salaries are not as attractive can be achieved by providing other befits like healthcare, covering the cost of additional educational expenses for employees, tuition cost for children. Benefits become expensive when working with scores of people nationally and internationally. Human Resource Management plans for these types of expenses based on location and country the organization will be expanding to, overhead cost must not exceed what the organization can afford. As the organization began recruiting members of the team, it is vital to have the correct personnel be hired. Hiring the wrong people for the job can be very costly. Starting with the leadership team who will be expected to train and ahead of time to be prepared to work with others in a new setting. With conflicts breaking out around world knowing who the company is working with cannot be taking lightly. Knowing who the stakeholders are and who the company adversaries are can save money and lives. Decisive leadership in an international context is essential to high productions and partnerships globally.
In this report I will discuss factors that affect an organization’s approach to both attracting talent and recruitment and selection. My report will also include some recruitment methods and its advantages.
In this assignment I have been required to select a business and research, investigate and observe recruitment and selection functions of that business procedure. I have been also asked to describe their human resources management activities undertaken in the business and how its supports the business, contributes to the
Established objectives, goals and priorities and deadlines to formulate plans to meet substantial changes in workload and identified potential cost and process efficiencies. I led a vast and diverse group of individuals in efforts to collaborate to streamline the international hiring process by assessing the potential milestones surrounding deploying hundreds of law enforcement personnel and their eligible family members to 72 foreign countries. I executed and implemented various spend plans, financial forecasting of allowances, staffing to budgets, and cost projections related to manpower and applicable pay compensation benefits. Political savviness, interpersonal communication skills, conducting several briefings and benchmarking analyses were the various skills I developed in this position. While serving in this capacity, I faced challenges with working with diverse people with various ideas, backgrounds and past experiences that may drove them to be difficult. Therefore, sought out learning opportunities to further master my skills in leading changes and partnerships, and began to consider a future as a senior executive in the federal government. In 2010, I enrolled in a 1-year Executive Potential Program, which was a 12-month nationwide competency-based leadership development program that provided training and developmental experiences for high potential GS-13 – 15s in the federal government moving into senior executive positions. I transition from an occupational
For avoiding failure, expatriate managers must have certain competencies. Here the competencies to ‘handle stress’ and ‘cultural adaptability’ are discussed. Ability to handle stress is an essential competence that all successful managers must have. Expatriate mangers experience stress due to the culture shock, unhappy family settings, work load, increased responsibilities and due to difficulties of everyday expatriate life. If the manager is competent to manage stress using sufficient stress management techniques, he will be able to control the situation and can become a successful manager. Another important competency required for the expatriate managers is cultural adaptability. An expatriate manage can perform well abroad if he has the competency to adapt to multi-cultural environments. If they have competence of cultural adaptability, they can easily develop a global perspective for their business. Such expatriate managers are able to recognize cross-border opportunities and can identify risks with a global perspective.
Since the takeover of Mansini’s company by a national conglomerate, emerging challenges of Maple Leaf Shoes Ltd. has presented an urgent need for a Human Resources Manager who possess core skills and extensive experience in human resources to handle the short term as well as long term needs of the company. The increasing global competition, labour and production costs, managerial training and employee development activities faced by the company are issues that needed immediate attention, all of which can be handled only by a full time HR manager whose sole responsibility was to manage the hiring, orientation, training, appraisal and compensation of employees.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of recruitment and selection in strategic management. Byars & Rue (2008) defined recruitment as an activity that seeks and attracts a pool of people from which qualified candidates for job vacancies can be chosen. Byars & Rue (2008) also defined selection as the process of choosing from among available applicants the individuals who are most likely to successfully perform a job. The roles of recruitment and selection in strategic management are varies. Recruitment and selection is an important phase in order to hire the right candidates, to find qualified and skilled workers, to eliminate personnel glitches, to reduce costs of training and development, to recognise the needs of the organization and to manage the candidates.
Management often measures recruitment and selection strategies by using one method. This paper will provide you Bradley, Landslide Limousine, with some different options recruitment as well as options for selection strategies. Here at Atwood and Allen Consulting Company we want to provide procedures and address concerns when planning for the recruitment of new employees. The first step consists of managing applicants and welcoming potential participants then selecting an applicant for an interview. (Cascio, 2013). To attract highly experienced employees,
In summary, the home culture of an expatriate predisposes them to certain behaviors and situations. It allows them to operate efficiently in that environment. However, moving to the host-culture changes that operating environment and makes their 'mental software ' less efficient and effective. Culture is clearly a relevant variable when expatriating employees and their families for international business assignments. Training can be applied to ameliorate these effects. Also, training provides insight into the procedural, substantive and informational aspects of their work and personal life in the host location.
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Studies of intercultural competence over the past thirty years attempt to measure the success or growth of an individual’s knowledge, skills and attitudes in relation to other cultures (Sinicrope, Norris & Watanabe, 2007). Global learning outcomes such as intercultural communication skills, intercultural adaptability, intercultural sensitivity, intercultural maturity, and intercultural competence are skills that universities feel are important to thrive in a diverse society where effective interactions with people from other cultures is necessary (Deardorff, 2011; Fantini, Arias-Galicia, & Guay, 2001; Trede, Bowles & Bridges, 2013; Williams, 2005). Consequently,
In the competitive business environment nowadays, companies need to present themselves as serious players with edges in various aspects, one most important of which is quality of their workforce. The quality of an organization’s workforce ,to some degree, determines how far it can go and this kind of quality depends mostly on an essential element in an organization’s operation, which is human resource management (Martin, J. 2008). Human resource management refers to the management of a company’s working staff, or human resource, including the practices of job analysis,human resource planning,recruitment,selection,human resource development, etc.(Kleynhans, R. 2006). Among all these practices, what is fundamental