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Outsourcing in Human Resource
Hochschule Bremen School of International Business - HBSIB
University of Applied Sciences Herr Prof. Dr. Ulrich ROHR

MBA in Global Management

OUTSOURCING HUMAN RESOURCES ACTIVITIES OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY IN EUROPE

Master Thesis 31st July 2003

Ms. Mathilde RENAUX & Mr. Eloi MALTA-BEY

First reader: Herr Prof. Dr. Karlheinz SCHWUCHOW – HBSIB – Bremen, Germany Second reader: Herr Prof. Dr. Werner VOIGT – UPAEP – Puebla, Mexico

Directed by Mrs. Dominique CALMANT Director of Human Resources Services and Staffing IBM EMEA

…the company without borders has its heart beating in the hands of its partners…

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OUTSOURCING HUMAN RESOURCES ACTIVITIES OF A MULTINATIONAL COMPANY IN EUROPE Mathilde RENAUX & Eloi MALTA-BEY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, if only one person could be warmly thanked for this particularly enriching experience, it would definitely be Dominique Calmant, Director of Human Resources Services and Staffing IBM EMEA, for having supervised this master thesis, for the time she has spent with us, and for the confidence she placed in our work. We hope we have fully satisfied her high expectations, since that has clearly been our main goal throughout this project. Similarly, we would like to express our grateful thanks to Eloïse VerdéDelisle, Director of Employee Relations IBM France, whose discernment is quite unquestionably high, and who actively participated in making this partnership with IBM EMEA possible. We would also like to thank Alexandra Dudouet, Human Resources Operations Officer IBM France, for her support and her help in the whole process, as well as Mathilde Malta-Bey, for her precious literature research in the Lille III University Library, and Christopher Minnich, for his advice despite his heavy work as a student at the George Washington University Law School. Finally we surely do not want to forget our professors, tutors, and correctors, who have been involved in the whole process of our education, from



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