BMP6003: International HRM Presentation on HR Practices

This presentation analyzes key international human resource management (IHRM) practices essential for global business operations. It identifies and explains three crucial HR practices: international recruitment and staffing, effective management of communication across borders, and continuous employee development with deliberate career planning. The presentation uses Amazon as a case study to illustrate these practices. Furthermore, the presentation synthesizes key issues of HRM in a global context, such as legal, technological, and political factors that impact HR policies and procedures. It highlights the challenges faced by multinational corporations in managing a diverse workforce across different countries and emphasizes the importance of adapting HR strategies to suit varying cultural and regulatory environments. The presentation concludes by summarizing the importance of these HR practices and issues within the broader context of international business. The student assignment is available on Desklib.

BSC (Hons) Business
Management (Top-up)
BMP6003 International HRM

Assessment 2: Individual Presentation
Three most important HR practices
for an international business
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TABLE OF CONTENT
• Introduction
• 3 Best HR practices used for international business
• Synthesis issues of HRM in global context
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
International Human Resource Management is defined as process or term used
for managing human resources functions, operations & activities at global level
(Reiche, 2018). IHRM is mainly concerned with carrying out the
organisational & HR activities globally. Amazon, a multinational corporation e
commerce headquartered in UK. It is being considered as top technology based
& retailing company which deals in online products and services through large
number of retailers. It is located globally with number of warehouse and
offices worldwide. Company deals in ample number of products and services
such as online booking of air tickets, food services, products like consumer
electronics, apparels etc. This presentation comprises of three best HR
practices for international business, synthesis key issues of HR practices.

Important HR practices for an
international business
Hiring and recruitment at international level
Recruitment of talented employees is a most important HR practices which is
required within in international business. In current scenario of international
business organization recruiting talented employees because of increase in
demand of talented employees in market. Under this, global organizations are
using different practices. These are polycentric staffing, region centric staffing
and many more. This helping organization in employing talented workforce to
current needs of international level.

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Pros
This practice is helpful to the organization in achieving the goals and
objectives because it helps in employing talented employees in firm which are
recruited according to need and requirement of organization(Andersson,
2019).

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Cons
The big problem with all these new practices is that organization
don’t know whether they actually produce satisfactory hires these
means organization can not future performer of employee in
organization(Machado, 2020)

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Management of communication
Management of communication is also an important HR practices which is
required at international business. This is because international businesses are
performing their transaction from country to country basis. This require
effective communication between employees within firm so that they can
perform effectively by reducing the communication error level (Gannon, 2019).
To carry out communication Amazon use video conferencing, e-mails and many
more tools which are helpful in managing communication at international level.

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Pros
 This practice aid a company in enhancing overall
communication among staff members among different
countries, which also increases the chances of
attaining a common goal like enhancing sales by 5% at
international market in much effective and efficient
manner.

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Cons
 Due to the systematic structure, it is said
that this system adopted by Amazon can
get slow. This can be considered as a
negative aspect of this particular
practice.

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Continuous development and deliberate career planning
In today's environment, the most important thing for employee within
an organization is to deliberately plan for its career and use the
continuous development in ability to perform on different job. In
context of international business, it is most important practice from the
HR manager to perform the continuous development process within the
firm and help the employees in career planning (Farndale, 2017).
Amazon do this by carry out CPD which is continuous professional
development training programmes.

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Pros
 It can be said that the major benefit of this particular practice
is that, it will be delivering ample number of opportunities to
staff members as they will continuously develop their existing
skills and attributes.