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Assignment on International Human Resource Management

   

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International Human Resource Management 1International Human Resource ManagementIHRM (International Human Resource Management) is defined as the procuring, allocation and effectively utilizing of the human resource in an international business. The typical functions of the IHRM include recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, training and development and many others. The topic selected for the assignment is resistance (Armstrong & Taylor, 2014). Resistance is denying or opposing any action, most of the organization faces resistance from their employees. Resistance is a natural response to change and recognizing and managing the resistance is a key skill for the effective change manager (Kuipers, Higgs, Kickert, Tummers, Grandia, & Van der Voet, 2014). There are many organizations that face the resistance to changewhile implementing the international human resource management functions in the organisation. Resistance to change is a key topic in change management and should be seriously considered to help the organizations to accomplish the benefit of the transformation. According to Lewin’s, a theory is change is a specific type of methodology for planning, participation, and evaluation. The change in the organization is essential considering the situationand for the growth and success of the company. These changes might affect the working of the employees in the organization and this becomes one of the reason due to which they resist the change in the organization (Burke, 2017). The international HRM face numerous issues when they implement the functions and practices across their global HR networks. These practices include human resource planning, recruiting and selecting the employees, training, and development of employees, performance management in the context of the cross culture (Bartunek, & Woodman, 2015). There are many companies who faced the resistance with the employees at the time of the recruitment. An example of the real world company who face the issue of resistance while

International Human Resource Management 2recruiting and selecting the employees. Uber Technologies Inc. is a global taxi technology company who is having the headquarters in San Franciso, California, the U.S. the company is offering its services across the world. The company performs all the functions of the international human resource management. The company also find some of the issues while performing the function of recruitment and selection of employees. The international recruiter’s team of Uber found a resistance from the women. The company released its first employee diversity report in March and the report revealed that the percentage of women tech workforce is just 15.4% and in total the company has only 36.1% of all Uber employees. The HR managers of the company believe that there are many workers who want to the join Uber which is considered as one of the most exciting and innovative tech companies. Though, from the past year, Uber is dealing with unsolicited recruitment attempts. There was an online campaign known as “Dear Uber Recruitment” in which people expressed many complaints (Dwoskin and Frankel, 2017). It has been analyzed from the campaign that there are many women’s who are not willing to work in Uber and this is the reason they denied for the recruitment and selection in the company. Some of the women have communicated this through e-mail in which they said that they don’t want to work with Uber. This incidence proves that resistance can be in any function of the HRM. This particular issue leads to the many issues for the company; the company's reputation and image were in danger. The people made the different perception of the organizational culture and working environment of the country. This indirectly affects the International human resource management team of Uber and the team finds the difficulty in attracting the talent so that they can select the suitable candidate according to their requirement. The HRM team have to take the corrective steps to overcome the problem faced by the Uber. The HR team of the company can welcome the

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