7 Potential HRM Issues in Cross-Cultural Management for Desklib

CROSS-
CULTURAL
MANAGEMENT

IDENTIFICATION OF 7
POTENTIAL HRM ISSUES
 Population difference
 Language
 Cultural difference
 Distance
 National wealth difference
 Different lifestyle
 Political factors

POPULATION DIFFERENCE
 The number of the individual per square
meter in China is 134.74
 The number of the individual per square
meter in Australia is 2.66 (Chen, Cheung
and Law 2012)
 Complexity while recruiting the most
efficient candidates from a large pool of
candidate
 Difficulty in handling a huge number of
job applications

LANGUAGE BARRIER
 only 22 percent of the Chinese residents
can fluently communicate in English
 Miscommunication resulting in
misunderstanding (Briscoe, Tarique and
Schuler 2012)
 major issues while communicating with
Chinese consumers as well as
employees
 Major conflicts may take place due to
misunderstanding
 Creation of a rejection prone mentality
among the Chinese consumers