Challenges Faced by Multinational Organisations in International Human Resource Management

Running Head: INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Overview
International human resource is a practice that is defined by the organizational activities and
it aims for efficient productivity and the effective management of the human resources. The
main functions that are performed by the staff of the human resource department are
recruitment, selection, training, development, appraisal, performance and managing the
activities of the workers. It incorporates capacities like business, determination, preparing
and improvement, execution appraisal and rejection done at worldwide level and extra
exercises, for example, worldwide aptitudes administration, ostracize administration and
some more (Brewster, Houldsworth, Sparrow and Vernon, 2016).
In this report, a portion of difficulties are confronted by dealing with the human asset
division of an association. It likewise limits the danger of disappointments in abroad task. In
straightforward terms, it is said as HR is overseen at global level to meet authoritative target.
Challenges faced by multinational organisations related to HR department
Multinational organisations are the one who controls and own various services in more than
one country. When multinational organisations work in global market they face various
challenges in relation with human resource management because multinational organisations
work in different countries with entirely different culture. Some of the challenges related to
human resource management are difference in beliefs and values of host and other country.
There are various differences that arise due to different culture. Human resource
management team is responsible for having a proper control over all the global operations.
There are some of the ethical issues that need to be resolved. The reason behind such issue is
uncertainty, volatility and ambiguity. The major concern that is faced in multinational
organisations due to HR department is creating a mind-set to improve the connection

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between international mobility and global function. The risk is increasing in the market due
to uncertainty as it does not permit human resource team to integrate all the operations
(Collings, Wood and Szamosi, 2018).
The other challenge is transferring skills to employee across different country. It was found
that every country as different values and beliefs. Thus, it is difficult to manage the issues
while hiring employees. Human resource management team should take an initiative of
offering training to the employees so that culture conflicts could be resolved. Human
resource department is also facing a challenge due to increasing use of automotive services
as it has decreased the demand of employee (Festing and Schäfer, 2014).
The role of HR department is to make sure that no cultural differences exist. The
diversification in the culture arises due to different languages, customs and beliefs. Thus, to
avoid such hindrances human resources department need to look for some action plans with
the motive of creating all the employees equally. In many cases, extra privilege is given to
the staff and employees or local region. Thus it is needed by human resource management
team to look at the performance capability of an individual without considering any other
factors. The staff and employees should be given equal importance in local as well as
international market (Sheehan, 2014).
Multinational organisations have diversified their services all over the globe. Human
resource management team face an issue while maintaining uniformity, business units are
present in different countries having different customs and policies. HR department find out
ways through which equality and uniformity is maintained in all the business units. This can
be achieved by having detail knowledge about local laws as well as finding out ways
through which safety can be maintained in an organisation. To maintain unity between
different branches, human resource management should build a community through which