International HRM: Managing Operations, Training, Assignees, and Virtual Teams

International HRM

Table of Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................1
Main task ...........................................................................................................................1
Managing international operations............................................................................1
Training and development of staff.............................................................................3
Managing international assignees.............................................................................4
Managing virtual teams.............................................................................................5
Health and safety considerations..............................................................................6
Restart and realigning business operations..............................................................7
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................8
Recommendation...............................................................................................................9
References...................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
International human resource management is defined as the process of
managing and carrying out various human resource activities at the national and
international level in order to achieve organisational goals and objectives and gain
competitive advantage at national and international level. Human resource management
plays an important role in effectively managing and motivating human resource in the
organisation. With increase demand of globalisation there is growing demand for
international human resource management which allows business to improve their
performance and able to achieve competitive advantage operating at international level.
This report explains how COVID 19 pandemic has made us to find new through which
international work can be carried out also how multinational companies use international
teams and virtual team collaboration. Furthermore various concepts of international
human resource management like how international operations can be managed,
training and development of staff, also managing international assignees are
highlighted. In addition to this how virtual teams can be managed also consideration of
various health and safety measures and further more restarting and realigning business
operations with appropriate organisation based examples.
Main task
International human resource management plays an important role in managing
human resource activities at international and national level (Definition of International
Human Resource Management, 2019). There are number of topic included in
international human resource management like managing international operations,
training and development of staff, managing international assignees, effective managing
virtual teams, various health and safety consideration needs to be taken and restart and
realigning business operations which are in detailed explained below:
Managing international operations
One of the important functions of international human resource management is
managing international operations, it is defined as the process of effectively managing
all the international operations, managing international operations is defined as the
special area of knowledge for any business enterprises (Budhwar, 2016). Increasing
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global competition brings both opportunities and risk for the businesses, but the recent
global economic downturn has made all the companies to reduce their operational cost
in the international market (Cristiani and Peiró, 2019). International operations system
allows company to develop their international distribution system, a network of global
supplier. More and more company are internationalised their operations and
incorporated their value chain beyond the national boundaries. Internationalising their
operations is one of the major task that company needs to carry, it involves proper study
of international markets with various purchasing strategies, various supplier market
opportunities available for the company. The cultural diversity has huge impact on
international operations, accepting cultural diversity allows you to carry out your
international business more confidently and also in providing customer services more
effectively and smoothly. Due to the current COVID 19 pandemic the managing
international operations is equally effected, the pandemic has created new challenges
for the international growth, majority of operations is carrying out using technologies,
also majority of people working remotely in order to maintain the physical distance. The
use of technologies in carrying out various operation is increasing due to the current
scenario of COVID 19 (Dalton and Bingham, 2017).
In context to Vodafone, which is one of the top multinational telecommunication
company. Founded on 16 September 1991, by Ernest Harrison. Company has
developed their human resource effectively and efficiently, company is effectively
managing their human resource nationally and internationally, even all the international
operations of the company are effectively carried out (Dubey and Gupta, 2018). In order
to manage their international operations company has understood that with the right
technology, teams from anywhere can be connected and operations can be carried out
smoothly, Vodafone has made sure in supporting society during current situation. Even
during the COVID 19 pandemic Vodafone's supply chain was very much proactive
internationally and nationally rather than being reactive . The company has mainly
focused on the four principle of supply chain management during pandemic which were
employees, customers, suppliers and the most important emergency planning which
enables company to manage their international operations more smoothly and enhance
their productivity and profitability (Fee and McGrath-Champ, 2017).
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