Strategies and Approaches for Training International Workers

This report discusses the strategies and approaches that new internationalizing organizations can take to train their employees for overseas projects. It also explores the challenges faced by employees working abroad and how management and HR practices can assist them in coping with these difficulties and being successful.

Strategic Human Resource
Management

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Strategies and approaches a new internationalizing organization can take to prepare and train
groups of employees to work in overseas location on projects...................................................3
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................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Strategic human resource management is concerned with connecting the firm’s goals as
well as firm’s human resource. It is considered as a future oriented approach through which
Human resource makes a direct influence on the firm’s growth (Bhattacharyya, 2018). The
human resource management’s objective in order to innovative as well as gets a competitive
benefit. Present Report is to describe several stages as well as approaches that are newly
internationalizing firms takes in order to train as well as prepare groups of workers so that work
within abroad locations on a tasks or project. It also discuss on several challenges that workers
faces when they are working overseas as well as focuses on several ways of HR practices and
management that aids them within such challenges
Strategies and approaches a new internationalizing organization can take to prepare and train
groups of employees to work in overseas location on projects.
Mention below are several strategies as well as approaches that a new international firms
takes in order to train their workers.
Culture simulation- It is considered as an approach regarding training where workers will be
role playing within some situation as well as practiced on several situation that are cultural
sensitive. Within this there are several activities that can be undertaken through employer that
train the workers for example building value ranking charts, self awareness, simulation games.
Within this type role play also aids the workers to accept culture as well as aids them to adapt the
host culture (Sowa, 2020).
Orientation- It is considered as most basic strategy regarding training that gives workers with
basic information to the workers about employer, workplace, organization and many more. It

includes familiarizing the workers with different language, culture of various nations that the
firm has to deal with that (Pongpearchan, 2016). Thus there are two kinds of the orientation
within international context that is post arrival orientation and pre-arrival orientation. Post-
arrival orientation involves focuses about cross cultural training as well as briefing about the
career opportunities; Also Pre- arrival orientation involves assignment briefing, culture briefing
as well as shipping needs.
Documentary training- It is considered as an informal training that can be considered
with briefings that is given through firm or the workers within an more informal way. It can be
given within the form of casual conversation (Baluch. and Ridder, 2020). Within this type of
training strategy factual and basic information is given working as well as living conditions as
well as cultural diversity of the host nation. This training provides observing and familiarizing
the host nation shopping as well as dressing patterns. This training aids the workers in order to
adjust to the new adaption and culture according to the lifestyle as well as focuses on the
problem solving.
Simulation training- Within type of training the trainees are put to an environment that
Has real life scenarios are provided them true to the life experiences. Thus staff members are
provided an opportunity to put their knowledge and skills within practice. It is also considered as
cost effective training strategy method that gives staff members an opportunity to learn as well as
take decisions. Thus training provides various benefits such as it aids within making the workers
aware about the basic information and business. It aids the workers to experiment control over
the virtual situation. This also test workers time management skills as well as aids within
examining the time effectiveness in submitting their decision to a certain matter. Thus such
training staff members also learn team coordination that increases their communication capacity
as well as improves the problem solving skills (Baluch. and Ridder, 2020).
Sensitive training- This approach of training aids the staff members being sensitive to the
various culture as well as existing diversity at the firm. It includes training that aids workers to
learn to be respectful as well as considered as perspectives of others too. It aids the international
firms to be very successful as there are several staff members that comes from different
background, culture as well as several workers in order to take effective decisions as well as
creates an healthy workplace environment (Armstrong, 2020). There are several ways within

which sensitivity training can be done for example unfreezing the old values within developing
the new ones. It aids the workers to be educated about the constructive behavior that benefits
everyone by the emotional actions. It also motivates the staff members in order to indulge within
perspective talking as it aids the staff members within the workplace to come to the mutual
understanding.
Language training- Language as well as communication can be considered as the most
vital aspect of the successfulness thus international firm focuses on training their workers within
several languages can be a business language or native language of the host nation. As lack of
such training slow down the business process as well as also interact with buyers. The training
gives to the staff members through firm aids them within getting benefit over others. It also
provides staff members confidence in order to deal with consumer as well as also communicating
with the firm. It also makes strong bonding to the understanding people as well as giving
consumers in order to provide effective after marketing and sales service in order to attract
consumers. It also aids the workers in order to increase their network (Baluch. and Ridder,
2020).
Challenges employees often face when working abroad and how management and HR practices
can assist them in coping with the difficulties and being successful.
Fitting in- One of the major challenge that staff members faces when working abroad is fitting
with new environment , new people. As working aboard the workers requires to communicate
with so many people who comfort from several cultures, several backgrounds as well as beliefs.
So that the staff members have a fear of fitting within new individuals, new environment as well
as new firm. HR and management can conduct several activities that conduct several activities
that aids the workers within engaging with several other workers at the firm. The management
must also conduct actions that aid the workers within ice breaking as well as interact with staff
members more effectively. The HR and Management can also conduct several games such as
pop quiz, game as well as Scavenger hunt and many more. These are the actions which aids the
staff members know better each other as well as also aid them in communicating.
Finding a home- One of the another challenge that the workers faces while working within
foreign nation is to find a home. As the workers have to do homework before planning to work
as their prices of house are higher as compare to the prices their home nation. Working within

foreign nation is consider as lit bit expensive as well as incur a higher living standards of the
workers. In order to cope up with such challenges the management can gives the workers with
the accommodate facility. It provides conveniences to the workers as well as keep them satisfied
.
Language barrier- It is also considered as one of the barrier when the worker work foreign
nations. Communication is considered as one of the basic in order to carry out a successful
business as well as also socialize. If the workers are not well versed with several languages then
they are not able to carry out their work more effectively as well as capable to share thoughts
with their colleagues. It is not able to understand the issues of the consumers. Here the cope up
with such challenges the HR and management gives employees language training for the begin
process as they can gives staff with such reliable services. There are certain management that can
narrow the markets as according to the convinces of workers that means provides market to the
workers for which they are comfortable within interacting. By avoid using technical words that
are not considered as common as well as not utilized through several people. The HR and
management try to teach the workers the basic language. Using various visual tool for interaction
can aids up with challenge. Human Resource must also encourage workers in order to explore
several other cultures also.
Finance and money management- The challenges that workers that work foreign faces is also
managing their money and finance. As managing the money and finance within home nation is
considered as easier for the workers but when workers works overseas there are several expenses
that can add on it and it also gets complicated (Storey, 2016). There are several extra laws as
well as tax that the workers needs to pay as well as several banking transactions that workers
has to undertake. The HR and management can offer their workers various schemes as well as
aids the financial management programs for their workers that can aids them within saving as
well as effectively utilizing their money. They can also teach their workers several options where
they can invest and get the huge returns.
Healthcare and safety - As the workers who are working overseas are not familiar with
places that gives safety and health care facilities. Sometimes the firm gives this facility but
within some cases it is unable to drive thus these challenges for the workers. It also hike the
stress on the money related things as well as steals peace of mind of workers. Safety is also

consider as a concern for the workers who are working overseas (Kasemsap, 2019). Thus it is
vital for the workers to assures that firms has certain laws as well as regulations that are
associated to the safety and health. Such type of the difficulty of workers can be cope up through
making various policies of protecting their workers as well as security health and safety of
workers within firm. For the safety of workers they must regularly check and maintain complex
plants and system that have a risk on workers life and health. The HR and management must
gives training to handle complex situations to the workers. In order to limit emission of the
harmful chemicals as well as noxrious substance that influence policies within the firm’s safety
and health. This will also aids within retaining the cream consumers within the firm as well as
aids the firm to be successful.
Other practices of HR and management that aids staff employees to cope up with such
challenges
 They must gives workers with basic information about the culture as well as makes them
feel more suitable or comfortable.
 Talking with workers as well as knowing regarding about their challenges that they face
as well as concern for the same also aids the worker within coping up with their hardship.
 Giving them with different counseling and coaching which are vital for the worker for
staying optimistic (Westover, 2019).
 The HR and management can utilize tools to know their level of happiness as well as
state of mind.
 The HR and management can provides workers from home facility for sometimes
through which they save on their fuel expenses.
Conclusion
From the above it had been concluded that Strategic human focuses on Culture
simulation, Orientation that gives basic information to the workers about employer, workplace
such Post- arrival and Pre- arrival, Documentary training provides observing and familiarizing
the host nation shopping aids the workers to the new adaption as well as focuses on the problem
solving. Simulation training that gives staff members an opportunity to take decisions about the
basic information. Sensitive training aids the workers to be educated about the constructive

behavior that benefits everyone by the emotional actions. It also motivates the staff members to
come to the mutual understanding. Language training makes strong bonding to the understanding
people as well as giving consumers in order to provide effective after marketing to attract
consumers. Furthermore report also focused on Challenges employees often such as Fitting in,
Finding a home, Language barrier, Finance and money management, Healthcare and safety

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