Managing a Global Workforce: Challenges and Recommendations

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People HR Management

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Contents
Topic issue: Managing a global workforce.....................................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Review of the literature...................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Recommendations............................................................................................................................6
Reference List..................................................................................................................................7

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Topic issue: Managing a global workforce
Introduction
Global workforces indicate as the international labour pool of workforces, entailing those
employed through multinational companies and linked by the global system of networking and
immigrant workers. Globalization has taken place in the world by which the corporations are
living in a brave new world with technology (Herring, 2009). There are number of issues arise
in managing a global workforce such as culture and communication, local talent, resistance to
change, execution of diversity in the workplace polices and remuneration expectations. The
main aim of this report is to highlight the points that are related to manage a global workforce.
The idea for the assignment is to “highlight the factors that can impact the global business team”.
There are number of employees within the organization who will deny accepting the fact in
which the social and cultural makeup of their workplace is amending. This report indicates the
two major issues in the modern day human resource management i.e. diversity management and
human resource development. In the last section of the report recommendation has been provided
in order to confront the challenges related to diversity management and human resource
development.
Review of the literature
According to Klitmøller & Lauring (2013), globalization of business facilitates in developing the
productivity of the company along with it helps in reducing the costs of the companies. It
increases innovation and performance of the organizations which facilitates it in expanding the
industry at global level. Global teams are considered as that team which are developed across
number of geographical locations in order to gain various expertise and knowledge. It facilitates
companies in lowering down the costs for the purpose of attaining the number of advantages in
comparison of managing the teams at a local level (Benton & Ferguson, 2017). The global
business can be handled in an effective manner if the mangers are ready to give their time to the
team and present for all to provide guidance in order to reduce the stress of work. There is some
adjustment required when you take someone from one environment into another. Crane &
Matten (2016), stated that managing global workforce is not easy to handle as the managers of