Effectiveness of HRM

Effectiveness of HRM

Introduction
• Global HRM practices should have both standardization
and local adaptability
• Standardization is important to maintain the uniformity
• Local adaptation is important to have higher effectiveness
in the market (Smale, Bjorkman and Sumelius 2013)
• Probability of challenges is high in coordinating between
the two

HRM strategy of Amazon
• Performance management approach of Amazon is uniform
across the world
• Employees are appraised in standard manner across the
world
• Growth and promotion process is also standardized (Edwards
et al. 2016)
• This enables in international allocation of the employees from
any regions

Cont.
• Cultural factors are locally adapted
• Paid holidays and leave benefits are different
• Approach of leadership is also different
• Compensation structure is also different