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Q1) Answer- International HRM (IHRM) is the process of procuring, allocating, and effectively utilizing human resources in a multinational corporation, while balancing the integration and differentiation of HR activities in foreign locations (Briscoe et al, 2009). IHRM should function in a way it should avoid cultural risks, regional disparities and must manage diversified human capital.The managerial responsibilities must include developing a global “mindset” by weighting on informal control mechanism, fostering horizontal communication, using cross-border and virtual teams and using international assignments. They should create cultural synergy and use cross-cultural skills daily and must treat foreign colleagues as equals and use …show more content…

Armstrong (2001) identifies the following functions for IHR managers: * Apply all possible approaches of Employment policies. * fill all key positions with parent country nationals * appoint home country nationals * appoint the best people regardless of nationality. * Recruitment and Selection should be without any partiality and the following criteria should be applied in that- 1 persons who show better competency – technical, language skills, motivation etc. 2 applicants who have previous overseas experience will be an asset for the organization. 3 persons who show cultural adaptability and evidence that the person shares the values of the culture in which he or she might work. 4 family circumstances should be considered– both the person and spouse/partner adaptable to working overseas. * International Employee Development should be adopted– the aim is to enable people to become more effective in their present job in an overseas location; account will need to be taken of cultural factors (in terms of how development programmes are delivered), and the extent to which there is central direction of programmes from the organisation, although they may be delivered locally. (Almond et al, 2004) Thus it is clear that Domestic HRM is only concerned with managing limited number of HRM activities at national level, where as IHRM has concerned with managing additional activities such as expatriate management. IHRM is very

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