Intercultural Session 1
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Definition of international management
International management covers both the crossing of national borders and the internal and external environment diversity that organizations and their managers experience when functioning outside their home state.
Causes of the increased complexity and uncertainty
- The more foreign a host country, the harder it becomes to identify cause-effect relations in people's behavior. That makes it more difficult to anticipate and assess the consequences of one's actions.
- Environmental factors and conditions vary from country to country. It is impossinle to have one worldwide procedure for the whole world. You need situation and case specific procedures. Moreover also economic, political and social disparities prohibit a uniform methodology.
- Patterns of perception, thought and behaviour are affected by sociocultural differences.
- >Linguistic variation is accompanied by differences in communicative and cooperative behaviour.
Distinctive features of international personnel management
- More tasks
- Global perspective
- Greater impact on private life
- More risk-laden
- Various economic and sociocultural conditions and factors taken into account
- Equal tratment of different nationalities
General aims of international personnel management
- Ensuring personnel deployment
- Identification of critical HR success factors
- Promoting cross-border know-how transfer
- Monitoring different habits of thought and behaviour
- Enabling harmonious and constructive social interaction across borders
- Creating a corporate culture characterised by openness and tolerance
- Improved rediness and capacitty for mobility
- Promoting cultural empathy
Define the Cross-cultural HRM and its objectives
- Rather narrow definition of culture
- Focuses on individual behaviour of organization members
- Description of organizational behaviour within countries and cultures
- Comparison of organizational behaviours between countries and cultures
- Explanation and improvement of interaction between employees, customers, contractors and cooperation partners from different countires and cultures
Describe the comparative HRM
The focus here lies not only on culturally determined behaviours, but on actual personnel managment practice.
Define International human resource management and mention the three levels of the tasks and instruments
International human resourcemanagement is the process of selecting, training, developing and compensating personnel in overseas positions.
- Personnel management tasks
- Personnel categories
- Countries
Mention the personnel management tasks
- Personnel planning
- Recruitment
- Development
- Deployment
- Motivation and incentives
- Employer relations
- Leadership
Mention and define the Personnel categories
- Parent or Home COuntry Nationals (PCN)
- Host Country Nationals (HCN)
- Third Country Nationals (TCN)
Mention the countries which can be managed by the HR
- Host
- Home
- Other
Define intercultural Human Resource Management
IHRM focuses on issues surrounding personnel management in intercultural contexts within a country or across countries. IHRM integrates the three perspectives of international HRM with special emphasis on cultural aspects.
Mention the objectives of IHRM
- Explanation and improvement of interaction between employees, customers, contractos and cooperation partners from different countries and cultures
- Comparison of personnel management practices between countries and cultures
- Explanation of variation among countries and cultures in personnel management practices
- HRM in multinational firms
Mention the functions of culture
- Orientation (Members are thaught what is right and wrong)
- Meaning (Culture assigns deeper meaning to the actions of individuals)
- Coordination and integration (Culture conveys a sense of unity to its members and marks them against other social groups)
- Justification (A social unit's culture provides fundamental rationales that sanction behaviour and actions both inwardly and to the outside)
