Strategies & Approaches for Training Employees in Overseas Locations

Strategic HRM

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
a) Explain the strategies & approaches a newly internationalizing company can take to
prepare and train groups of employees to work for it in overseas locations. Which approaches
may work best and why?........................................................................................................3
Discuss what challenges employees often face when working abroad and how management
and HR practices can assist them in coping with the difficulties and being successful.........5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The growing devotion towards globalization is increasingly recognized international human
resource management as a major factor for the success of global expansion. Many organizations
are now expanding their markets into other countries and regions in order to gain higher growth
and success at marketplace. One of the evolutionary stage take place by company is
internationalization. It is defined as the process of designing offerings to meet the requirements
of users in different countries. Along with this, it is a step that organizations take to increase its
footprint or capture large markets outside of its country through branching out into international
markets. It is stated that effective human resource management of a company is the major
competitive advantage and an important determinant of organizational performance (Armstrong
and Taylor, 2020). For surviving in the global economic market, organization mainly relies on
the capability and potential of its human resources. Dyson, a British technology organization
which was established in UK in year 1991 is decided to expand its business internationally in
Singapore. The company design as well as manufacture household appliances such as air
purifiers, heaters, hair dryers, vacuum cleaners and so on. The report will cover strategies as well
as approaches a newly internationalizing organazation can take place in order to train and
prepare its employees to work overseas. In addition to this, there is a discussion about challenges
staff members face while working abroad. In the last, there is a discussion about HR practices
which help an organization to deal with the difficulties and to gain success as well.
MAIN BODY
a) Explain the strategies & approaches a newly internationalizing company can take to prepare and train
groups of employees to work for it in overseas locations. Which approaches may work best and
why?
In the recent years, there is rapid growth of internationalization and globalization. Most of the
companies have increased in number and importance that contributing towards growing
significance of international role of HRM. It is determined that effectiveness of human resource
management is vital factor in order to determine the success as well as failure of international
business. Human resource strategies plays vital role in the control as well as implementations of
activities associated to internationalization. It is important for an organization to focus on