Contemporary International Human Resource Management - Assignment

Contemporary
International Human
Resource Management

Table of Contents
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
FINDINGS.....................................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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TITLE
“To transfer the employees relation practices to its overseas subsidiaries”
INTRODUCTION
Human resource management is considered to be the most strategic approach for all the
type of the organisation whether it be the domestic firms or international firms. HRM is mainly
associated with the administration of people within the organisations in order to attain the goals
and objectives of the business can be attained within a short duration of time. These are the
department in the organisation responsible for the employees’ selection, employee’s
recruitments, employees benefit and employees relations. In this report, the main focus is on the
concept of transfer of the employees relation to its overseas subsidiaries either fully, partially or
not at all. The prime objectives of the IHRM is give more emphasis on the management of the
personnel at multinational companies in regard to provide the organisation with the certain level
of the opportunities so that the business can expand their operation globally. In this current report
the chosen association is Walmart Inc. which operates their business worldwide by covering the
hypermarket globally. The final section of this assignment consists of the implementation of the
different employees relation practices within the host countries and its overseas subsidiaries.
Lastly, it also considers the impact of the employees’ relations effectively. For completing this
report a case study approach has be followed.
Overview of the company
Walmart Inc. is termed to be the most renounced multinational company operating their
business in the retail sector, discounts departments store and grocery stores. At the initial level
the company was known as the Walmart stores, Inc. then after a period it was termed as a
Walmart Inc. in the year 2018. The company has established 11,390 stores and clubs across 30
countries. Walmart Inc. also execute their business across 60 countries under the different
names . The company deals in offering their customers with merchandise such as apparel, house
wear, small appliances, all musical instruments, books, shoes, jewellery etc. This MNC operates
in all the sectors whether it be a retail or wholesale sectors to render their services to the
customers for fulfilling their expectations and wants. Walmart operates their business by
considering various brands under its to earn the large amount of the revenue in the competitive
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market. The Walmart Inc. operates their business by the establishment of various subsidiaries
some of the subsidiaries are Sam's club, Flip kart, Walmart Canada, Jet.com, Bonobos etc.
LITERATURE REVIEW:
Concept of the Employees Relation:
Employees relation is the most essential component for the business as this helps the
business in achieving their goals within the shorter duration of the times by effective utilisation
of the resources which are available to them. Employees relation is also coined as the process of
managing and maintaining the relationship between the employers and employees of the
organisations. This is the necessary factor for the business as the organisation have a better
employees’ relation will be able to provide their employees with the fair and consistent treatment
regarding their job which they are operating in order to accomplish the business objectives.
Better employee relation will also enable the organisation to prevent all those hurdles which may
occur while operating the business between the employers and employees(Barcik and
Dziwinski, 2015). These programmes are taken to be the most critical part of the HRM which
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