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International Organizations : The Strategy Development Practices And Processes

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International organisations differ in their strategy development practices and processes, based on their approach to internationalism as either ethnocentric, polycentric, geocentric or regiocentric. All are faced with market forces and changes within their sectors, dependant on the cultural and institutional drivers, prevalent in their operational country and in those of country of origin (Farndale & Paawe, 2007). At a global level, human resource (HR) practices are found to be similar in competitive contexts, whereby organisations benchmark practices and processes against similar organisations appearing to operate successful HR policies which are driven by best practice and technology availability, in areas such as: recruitment and selection, reward structures, performance management, succession planning, expatriate management and training and development. Notwithstanding this, competitive advantage is derived from differentiation of organisational culture, structure and strategy and combining leverage derived from human capital (Shen, 2011; Slocum, et al., 2014). The rapidly changing global arena has forced many organisations to adopt an increasingly dynamic approach to performing business by adapting their environment for flexibility, innovation, creativity or cost effectiveness, in order to manage constant changes to organisations in terms of technology, the ascendancy of knowledge workers, worker diversity and the need for constant improvement to meet changing customer

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