HR Related Issues in Cross-cultural Comparison

HR related issues
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Cross-cultural comparison..........................................................................................................3
Power Distance............................................................................................................................6
Individualism...............................................................................................................................6
Masculinity..................................................................................................................................7
Long Term Orientation...............................................................................................................8
Indulgence...................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion and Recommendations................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
The human resource department is most important for selecting the best employees for
the organisation. The HR of the organisation is having changes and they have increased the
process from selecting the employees and motivating them to coordinating different departments.
They are connecting organisation to employees and motivating them to work. The Human
resource is helping the organisation in selecting the best employees and giving them rights to
make the decisions. The HR is monitoring performance of employees and helping them to
improve (Maheshwari and Vohra, 2015). The organisations has many employees and they have
different needs which the HR has to understand and give them different facilities. The chosen
organisation for the report is Foster & Son which is founded in 1840 and is a SME in
Northampton and is the shoe manufacturing organisation. The human resource department of the
organisation is moving from Northampton to China, Vietnam and Ethiopia. The report includes
Cross-cultural comparison with Hofstede Cultural Dimension, Power Distance, Individualism,
Masculinity, Long Term Orientation and recommendations.
Cross-cultural comparison
Hofstede Cultural Dimension- This is a process used by the organisations to understand
the difference in cultures in many countries and it was founded by Greet Hofstede. It is used to
difference between the national cultures and the employees of the organisation. There are many
factors of Hofstede Cultural Dimension and they are Power Distance Index, Collectivism and
individualism, Uncertainty Avoidance Index, Femininity and Masculinity, Short term and long
term orientations and Restraint and Indulgence.
The organisations have different employees and they will help them in improving the
performance (Moskalenko, 2018). Foster & Son want to expand the organisation in China,
Vietnam and Ethiopia and they will have to analyse the performance. The HR has to select the
employees and they will have different issues because of the difference in the buying habits in
different countries.
HR issue China Vietnam Ethiopia
Employee relations The organisations are
having problems in
The employees
relations in Vietnam is
The employees of
Ethiopia is the having
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China because they are
a market economy.
They have trade union
law and labour law
and it is giving rights
to employees. The
employees relation is
good with security of
the work for
employees and they
are getting good salary
(Taylor and Sharif,
2017).
helping the
organisation because
the labour cost is less
and they are giving
good salary to
employees. The
organisation will get
skilled labours and
they will help in
increasing
performance
(Dickmann, Brewster
and Sparrow, 2016).
the rights in the
organisation. They are
helping the employees
in having good
relations with the
organisations.
Mobility of labour The mobility of labour
from China is helping
the organisation and
they are low cost
employees. The
organisations will get
good employees and
the cost will be less for
customers.
The employees will
have less mobility
when they are having
organisations in
Vietnam and they will
have to improve the
skills.
The organisation in
Ethiopia is having less
employees mobility.
Leadership and
management
The organisations in
China have Leadership
and
management. They are
having skilled
employees who are
helping them in the
coordination.
The organisation can
expand to Vietnam and
the Leadership and
management is helping
in employees.
The employees of
Ethiopia is having
Leadership and
management and they
will help the
organisations in giving
better performance.
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