Scenario: As a newly appointed Human Resources Director of a large multi-national enterprise, you have been asked to prepare a new human resource management (HRM) policy for the whole organisation. Some senior managers and other colleagues have criticized the current human resources and employment policy as “too ethnocentric”. Discuss the possible alternatives to the “ethnocentric approach” to HRM and state which approach you would recommend to be adopted in the new global HRM policy. Answer this question in not more than 700 words.

Scenario: As a newly appointed Human Resources Director of a large multi-national enterprise, you have been asked to prepare a new human resource management (HRM) policy for the whole organisation. Some senior managers and other colleagues have criticized the current human resources and employment policy as “too ethnocentric”. Discuss the possible alternatives to the “ethnocentric approach” to HRM and state which approach you would recommend to be adopted in the new global HRM policy. Answer this question in not more than 700 words.

Management, Loose-Leaf Version

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ISBN:9781305969308

Author:Richard L. Daft

Publisher:Richard L. Daft

Chapter12: Managing Human Talent

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