The document discusses key components of international human resource management (IHRM), including recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, compensation, and labor relations for a multinational organization. It covers challenges such as choosing between host country nationals, expatriates, and third country nationals. Other topics include using expatriate vs host country managers, reasons for expatriate success and failure, approaches to expatriate training and compensation, and repatriation issues. The document concludes with a discussion of IHRM orientations and how they relate to different multinational strategies.
6. USING HOST COUNTRY MANAGERS Do they have the expertise for the position? Can we recruit them from outside the company?
7. USING EXPATRIATE MANAGERS Do parent country managers have the appropriate skills? Are they willing to take expatriate assignments? Do any laws affect the assignment of expatriate managers?
10. REASONS FOR U.S. EXPATRIATE FAILURE Spouse fails to adapt Manager fails to adapt Other problems within the family Personality of the manager Level of responsibilities
11. Lack of technical proficiency No motivation for assignment Reasons for expatriate failure, continued
12. MOTIVATIONS TO USE EXPATS Managers acquire international skills Coordinate and control operations dispersed activities Communication of local needs/strategic information to headquarters
13. KEY EXPATRIATE SUCCESS FACTORS Professional/technical competence Relational abilities Motivation Family situation Language skills Willingness to accept position
14. PRIORITY OF SUCCESS FACTORS Depends on : assignment length cultural distance amount of required interaction with local people job complexity/responsibility
15. EXHIBIT 11.3 SHOWS A DECISION MATRIX USED TO SET PRIORITIES OR DIFFERENT SUCCESS FACTORS DURING SELECTION
25. CHALLENGES OF EXPATRIATE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL Unreliable data Complex and volatile environments Time differences and distance separation Local cultural situations
26. STEPS TO IMPROVE THE PROCESS 1. Fit the evaluation criteria to strategy. 2. Fine tune the evaluation criteria 3. Use multiple evaluators with varying periods of evaluation
27. EXHIBIT 11.6 Shows several sources of information a superior or the HRM professionals may use to evaluate an expatriate managers
30. THE BALANCE SHEET APPROACH Provides a compensation package that equates purchasing power
31. BALANCE SHEET COSTS Allowances for cost of living, housing, utilities, furnishing, educational expenses, medical expenses, club memberships, and car and/or driver expenses
33. OTHER APPROACHES Parent country wages everywhere Wean expatriates from allowances Pay based on local or regional markets Cafeteria selection of allowances Global pay systems
34. THE REPATRIATION PROBLEM Difficult for many organizations "Reverse culture shock" Expatriates must relearn own national and organizational culture Includes whole family
35. STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESSFUL REPATRIATION PROVIDE: A strategic purpose for repatriation A team to aid the expatriate Home country information sources Training and preparation for the return Support for expatriate and family
36. WOMEN EXPATRIATES: TWO IMPORTANT "MYTHS" Myth 1: women do not wish to take international assignments Myth 2: women will fail in international assignments because of the foreign culture's prejudices against local women
37. SUCCESSFUL WOMEN EXPATRIATES Foreign not female emphasize nationality not gender The woman's advantage strong in relational skills wider range of interaction options
40. IHRM ORIENTATION AND MULTINATIONAL STRATEGY Early stages of internationalization = ethnocentric IHRM Multilocal strategies = ethnocentric or regiocentric Regional strategy = closer to the global
41. International strategy = ethnocentric or polycentric IHRM Transnational strategies = a global IHRM
42. CONCLUSIONS HRM functions IHRM challenges Expatriate managers The role of women in multinational organizations Multinational strategies and IHRM orientations