HRD

Challenges &
Future Trends

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New Challenges in the Changing
Workplace

Managing Knowledge
Workers
Employee who is of value
because of the knowledge that
he or she possesses

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New Challenges in the Changing
Workplace

Contingent Worker  
Employee hired on something
other than a full-time basis to
supplement an organization’s
permanent work force

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New Challenges in the Changing
Workplace

Managing Workforce
Diversity
Range of workers’ attitudes,
values, and behaviors that
differ by gender, race, and
ethnicity

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 Challenges

• What HRM strategies are appropriate at

different stages of internationalization?
• How is the best employee mix (host-
country and expatriate) determined?
• Why do international assignments fail?
• How are returning employees re-
integrated into the firm?
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Expatriate:
A citizen of one
country living and
working in another
country

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Stages of a Global Organization

• Domestic
• International
• Multinational
• Global or Trans-national

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 Managing an International Subsidiary

• Ethnocentric Approach
• Top management and key positions filled by
people from home country
• Polycentric Approach
• International subsidiaries managed/staffed by
personnel from host country
• Geocentric Approach
• Nationality deliberately downplayed
• Firm searches worldwide or regionally to hire
best people to fill key positions
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Why International Assignments Fail

• Career blockage
• Culture shock
• Lack of pre-departure cross-cultural
training
• Overemphasis on technical qualifications
• Getting rid of a troublesome employee
• Family problems

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 Upon Return

• Lack of Respect for Acquired Skills

• Loss of Status
• Poor Planning for Return Position
• Reverse Culture Shock

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 Selection of Employees for
International Assignments
• Emphasize cultural sensitivity as a selection
criteria
• Establish a selection board of expatriates
• Require previous international experience
• Explore possibility of hiring foreign-born
employees to serve as “expatriates” at future
date
• Screen candidates’ spouses and families
• Cross cultural training
• Compensation structure

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Future trends & Implications for HRD
• Increased concern by organizations on
HRM
• Removal of termination as a threat
• Creation of a bimodal workforce
• Dual Career Couples
• Working at home
• Matching the environment to the
employees
• Decline of Unions
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 HOORRAY!!!!!

WITH THAT WE END THE SYLLABUS

FOR HRM

THANK YOU

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