Strategic HRM Report: International HRM Strategies and Challenges

This report delves into strategic human resource management (SHRM) within the context of international business. It examines the strategies and approaches organizations can employ to prepare and train employees for overseas assignments, including cultural awareness training, mentoring programs, and e-learning tools. The report also addresses the challenges employees often face when working abroad, such as feelings of isolation, language barriers, healthcare issues, and difficulties in building relationships. Furthermore, it explores how management and HR can assist employees in coping with these challenges and achieving success, including providing incentives, promoting cultural seminars, conducting regular follow-ups, and fostering a supportive work environment. The report highlights the importance of SHRM in fostering employee satisfaction and organizational success in the global marketplace.

STRATEGIC HRM

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
A) Explain strategies and approaches an internationalizing organization can take to prepare and train
groups of employees to work in overseas locations on projects...............................................................3
B) Discuss what challenges employees often face when working abroad and how management and HR
can assist them in coping with the difficulties and being successful........................................................5
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Strategic human resource management refers to an interrelation between strategies,
objectives, goals and an organization human resource management. The major purpose of
strategic human resource management is to develop flexibility; innovation etc. within company
so that firm will gain competitive advantage in their long term survival. It also useful to develops
the culture so that employees are also working satisfactory so that they work properly and
efficiently. This report is based on elaborating strategies and approaches of an internalizing
business to train employees for working foreign country so that targets are attained on specified
period of time (Boxall, 2018). Further it’s also inculcates the challenges that are faced by
employees while working in abroad. In this human resource management of a company focus on
adopting several practices that helps in assisting them to face the difficulties and get high success
in their targets.
MAIN BODY
A) Explain strategies and approaches an internationalizing organization can take to prepare and
train groups of employees to work in overseas locations on projects
Internationalization business refers to abusiness that prepares products and services in
such a way that are consumed by the consumer on global level. In business’s world it is very
essential to manage the work effectively for long term survival. It helps in doing the work on
global level. For an organization it is very essential to train their employees so that they work
overseas for gaining more profitable results (Reade, McKenna and Oetzel, 2019). Therefore,
offering training to employees helps an organization to gain competitive advantage in the
international market. For instance- Tesco is a leading organization that does business on
international level for this they need to train their employees so that objectives of a firm can
attain successfully in the international market. Strategies and approaches to train group of
employees to work on global locations are presented below:
In this manager of international business focus on creating awareness related to cultural
difference among employees so that they work properly with satisfaction. It helps in presenting
positive outcomes in attaining objectives. It is an essential strategy that an organization can take

to train their workers for working globally. For instance- in terms of Tesco, manager focus on
cultural related strategy so that employees understand the differences related to cross cultural. In
this Offering training related to cross cultures to employees before sending them to work in
overseas location solve the issues related to conflicts and misunderstanding. For this company
can hire a cross cultural trainer who provide training to groups of workers to work in specified
foreign country.
Another strategy that is adopted by an international organization to train their employees
is to offering mentoring. Mentoring is highly essential to train employees to work effectively and
efficiently. In this a professional candidate is to provide training to workers related to another
country culture, values, beliefs etc. so that they work proficiently. Mentoring is essential to
encourage positive attitude within workers so that they work well and developing relations at
new place with the customers (Zehir, Karaboğa and Başar, 2020). For instance- Manager of
Tesco offers mentoring to talented workers wjo are capable of working in different country as
mentors provide proper guidance to employees related to achievement of task so that company
will gain more profitable results within the international market and also develops competitive
advantage within business industry. In the world of digitalization companies focus on providing
training to group of people using it. It helps in getting successful in providing training to
workers. At the time of internationalize the business manager focus on using e-learning tools. By
using e-learning tool manager takes employees test, organizing activities etc. so that employees
are engaged within it. Therefore it helps in gaining targets in global market. For example-
Manager of Tesco focus on using e-learning tools so that they train the group of employees
related to attaining international projects within global market. By using e-learning as a strategy
company got the frequent results and survives to a longer period of time in a marketplace.
To train the group of workers for attaining international projects by working overseas
company implement a strategy related to performance evaluation. Performance evaluation is a
significant tool that helps a business firm to train employees according to the capability and
ability of an individual person (Turner, 2020). Therefore, offering training to employees without
evaluating individual performance impact negatively on the success. For instance- At the time of
internationalizing the business operations manager of Tesco emphasis on evaluating employee’s
performance so that they provide training to workers as per their capability related to specific

objectives. Business firm also encouraged employees related to working overseas by providing
innovative training. To train the overseas employees within organization manager organizes the
training session that includes practical exercise related to particular assignment so that they
become experts to deal in the oversea market that helps in attaining objectives effectively and
efficiently. Business firm organize the brain stormingstrategy to train the group of employees for
working abroad. This strategy is highly effective because it helps in developing the thinking
power of employees that helps in attaining goals in the international market. Due to this company
will gain profitable results by beating the competitive firm (Jiang and Li, 2019).Offering a family
training programme to that group of employees who are working an overseas to attain the project
objectives. In this a manager of an organization focus on developing the knowledge of workers
related to oversea country values, beliefs, day to day living and many more. This strategy of
training help in reducing the risk of creating misunderstanding in distinct culture while
developing the experience associated with cross culture.
In this manager of the company focus on adopting ethnocentric approach in which a
business firm hires an employees within the parent company who have advanced knowledge and
skills to complete the task. So that they performed well in another country to attain goals. It also
helps in offering training to the workers according to the targets that they achieved in the foreign
country. In this company also hires an manager who handle the firm operation in another city
and in this business enterprise adopts the polycentric approach. It is useful to guide the
employees within oversea country that helps in attaining strategy to attain competition within
marketplace so that high profitable results area to be enjoyed.
B) Discuss what challenges employees often face when working abroad and how management
and HR can assist them in coping with the difficulties and being successful
Challenge that are faced by employees while working abroad
Employees are the main asset of an organization. An organization who works in an
international market need to focus on employees efficiency so that high targets are attained on
time. In terms of international business employees are also working overseas to complete the
project proficiently to long sustainability (Emeagwal and Ogbonmwan, 2018). Working in
aboard creates stress in the workers mind due to which they feel de- motivates towards work. At

the time of working internationally workers faces several challenges that are to be presented
below:
The major challenge that is faced by the employees who are working abroad is that they
feel alone because at their no family and friend members areavailable. In this employees are also
facing the challenges related to pay. To work in a foreign country employees need more pay as
compare to working in home country because in foreign country that have more expenses. It will
be the biggest challenge that is faced by an employee (Cooke, Xiao and Xiao, 2020). Another
challenge that is faced by an employee while working abroad is the language issues. To work in
a foreign country it is very essential to understand their language, culture, values so that working
would be easy. While working abroad workers faces the challenge related to getting proper
healthcare as they are new in the country due to this they are not having proper knowledge
regarding the hospitals, food etc. This will impact health of employees. In these new country
workers faces challenge related to developing relationship with other local people. For this they
need to understand the culture that is quite difficult for workers to sustain in the abroad for
working.
Getting new friends in the new country is crucial for to sustain in that particular country.
That becomes a major challenge which is faced by an employee’s while working in new country
for attaining company projects. Because of not getting new friends employee become depressed
(Thite, 2018). For instance- If an employees of a Tesco working in china that is totally different
from UK in terms of culture, values, beliefs. In this employees face the major challenge related
to commencing with people that creates depression and restrict them to work in another foreign
country. Mainly employee faces the language, culture, pay related challenges while working in
abroad country.
To overcome these challenges manager of the international company can focus on several
aspects so that successful results are gained in a specified period of time that are shown below:
To assist the success within international market manager of a company have to focus on
reducing the challenges that are faced by an employee’s while working abroad. For this manager
of company need to motivates their workers by using incentives, promotion, bonus so that
workers are attracted toward working in the new city (Sarvaiya, Eweje and Arrowsmith, 2018).

To assist employees in overcoming the challenges, human resource management of a company
emphasis on prioritize the cultural related seminars to in the new country where they work so
that they effectively understand their values, norms, rules to closely. It help in satisfying
employees in that country so that they work more productively and proficiently, taking regular
follow-ups of employees helps in engaging employees within the task in abroad so that
objectives are achieved on given time period as well as employees are working happily. For
instance- To work effectively and manage the employees in another foreign country manager of
Tesco can implement a friendly culture where they use the democratic style of leadership so that
every employee can share their issues and ideas within the working environment that helps in
gaining profitable results to business (Collou, Bruinsma and van Riemsdijk, 2019). Therefore it
also helps in reducing the challenge that is faced by employees that is being alone in the new
country. This style of leadership helps in satisfying the employees for work effectively and
efficiently (Saha, Nibedita, TomášSáha, and Petr Sáha. 2019). In this Human resource manager
also do promote the compensate employees as per their capability and ability of complete the
task that helps an organization to get the higher success in the marketplace. It also helps in
gaining competitive advantage for a longer period of time.
In this human resource manager communicate the guidelines related to foreign country
rules and regulations so that challenge related to not understanding the working culture by
employees can be resolved. It indirectly helps organization to gain higher success in the global
marketplace (Chadwick and Flinchbaugh, 2020). In this employees also focus on maintaining
positivity and also encourage employees for working effectively and efficiently. It helps in
attaining targets and also promote employees to work hard for achieve the goals so that they get
higher pay in the foreign country that helps in their survival.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that strategic human resource management is a
significant term that helps organization to implement innovation, flexibility etc. It helps an
organization to longer sustainability by developing strategies related to employee’s satisfaction.
This report helps in understanding the approaches that is used by organization for train
employees who work overseas so that targets are attained on time. In these companies implement

number of strategies to train working effectively so that they attain targets within international
market. It also helps business to gain competitive advantage so that it survives within global
market.

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