As organisations expand their global operations into emerging economies as well as more traditional developed host country locations, it has become ever-more important that appropriate support is given to employees and their family members so that internationally mobile personnel can achieve successful international assignment outcomes. In this context, you have been asked to prepare a briefing paper for presentation at a conference that will be attended by academics and practitioners in the field of international HRM.
Your task is to critically discuss the most important factors that organisations should take into account when designing global mobility policies to facilitate the transfer/movement of international assignees, and potentially accompanying family members, into host locations with different cultural and employment traditions. Your paper should draw on the following;
1. Globalisation and regionalisation, the nature and development of global and transnational organisations, the role of the international manager, and different approaches towards international human resource management.
2. Institutional and cultural theories of convergence and divergence and different models of IHR.
3. The concepts of “societal culture” and ‘global/local dilemma’ and the management of cultural differences and expectations, including awareness training in international settings.
4. Strategies and good practices for employee resourcing, recruitment and selection, and development in an international context, including capabilities and competences needed.
5. Labour standards and economic, legal and social aspects of the employment relationship in an international context and in different countries, their impact on transnational organisations.
6. International assignment policy design and reward and performance management systems, their implementation and monitoring.
7. Mobility policies, diversity management, equal opportunities policies, health and welfare, and corporate social responsibility in international organisations, including problems of work life balance and the specific pressures involved in international work.
8. Managing change and the transfer of HR practices in transnational corporations, including the diffusion of HR strategies and practices and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
9. Sources of information on human resource -related issues; problems in comparing international data on employment indicators.
issues like culture, employment relationships, legal and regulatory requirements,
Your paper should not exceed 2,500 words (excluding cited references which should be in a references list at the end of your paper and presented in Harvard style).