International Human Resource Management : Marks and Spencer

International Human
Resource Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................................9
REFERNCES ...............................................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
In every single business organization, human resource department plays a crucial role
when it comes to managers workforce. There are many companies that are performing operations
at international market faces a range of issues related to employees. Factors like culture,
technology, interest, motivation, wages and more impacts the most on a company and fluctuates
the employee turnover ratio. Firm which has been chosen under this assignment i.e. Marks and
Spencer. It was found in the year of 1884 by Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer. A major
British multinational retailer headquartered in Westminster, London that specialises in selling
clothing, home products and luxury food products. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and
is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Organisation is having around 81,000 employees that are
performing well in all over the world. Report will cover the issues and various international
human resource model to resolve the issues (Bader, Schuster and Dickmann, 2015).
MAIN BODY
International human resource management is related to managing all activities and
practices of human resource management at an international level for achieving goals and
objectives of company at a large scale. HR managers of companies which operates at
international level has to face a lot of problems. These problems sometimes act as barriers in
their way to success. Marks & Spencer is an UK based multinational retailer, which is providing
their services in many countries. In case of this company, Human resource managers has to deal
with problems related to training and development, cultural diversity, employee benefits and
compensation, compliance with international laws and tax liabilities etc.
At international level HR managers of Marks & Spencer needs to comply with the laws
and regulations of foreign country. As, non compliance with regional laws can create complexity
in conducting business operations. Different nation has different laws related to industry,
employee protection and wages, company has to understand these and adopt them for effectively
running their business at an international level (Brewster, Chung and Sparrow, 2016). Some
countries have more protective laws and some have less protective regulations for employees.
International laws act as a major problem for human resource personnel because these are
directly related to recruitment, promotion and management of organisational activities.
The staffing challenges for international assignments are broader in scope than those for
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