MBA 933-18 International Human Resource Management
Course Objective: This course provides an understanding of the role of human resource management (HRM) in international contexts. The course is divided into three areas of study: the context of international HRM, strategic and functional HRM in international contexts, and comparative international contexts.
Unit –I
International Human Resource Management: Concept, Difference between Domestic and International HRM, Variables that moderate difference between Domestic and International HRM.
Sustaining International Business Operations: Approaches to Staffing, Transferring Staff for International Business Activities, Role of Expatriates and Non-Expatriates, Role of the Corporate HR function.
Recruiting and Selection Staff for International Assignments: Concepts, Issues in Staff Selection, Factors Moderating Performance, Selection Criteria, Dual Career Couples and Role of Women in International Management.
Unit –II
Re-entry and Career Issues: Concept and Repatriation Process, Individual Reactions to Re-entry, Multinational Responses, Designing a Repatriation Program.
Training and Development: Concept, Role of Expatriate Training, Expatriates or Local Managers, Components of Effective Predeparture Training Programs, Effective of Pre - Departure Training, Developing Staff through International Assignments. Staffing and Training for Global Operations, Global Staffing Choices, Dynamics of Cross-Cultural leadership, managing and motivating multi culture Teams.
Unit –III
Performance Management: Concept, Multinational Performance Management, Performance Management of International Employees, Performance of Appraisal of International Employees.
Compensation: Concept and Objectives of International Compensation, Key Components of an International Compensation Program, Approaches to International Compensation.
Unit –IV
Knowledge Transfer within a Multinational Company: Organizational Knowledge and its Significance, Sources of Organizational Knowledge; Tacit and Explicit Knowledge; HRM and Organizational Knowledge; Transfer of Knowledge between and within organizations, Transfer of Knowledge within MNCs, Transfer of Knowledge across National Borders, Transfer of Managerial Know-how and HRM across National Borders.
Industrial Relations: Key issues in International Industrial Relations, Trade Union and International Industrial Relations, Responses of Trade Unions to Multinationals; Regional Integration: the European Union, Issue of Social Dumping, Impact of Digital Economy. National Context of HRM: HRM Practices in Japan, United Kingdom, United States, India and China.
Note: Relevant Case Studies should be discussed in class.
