CHAPTER 2 CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT LECTURE NOTES This chapter examines the role of culture in managing people across borders. It identifies the several important dimensions for gaining insights and understanding about the cultures of employees that staff organizations domestically and abroad. It also addresses the different views about how global and regional economic integration have affected and will affect the different dimensions of culture. LEARNING
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Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.1 History 2 1.2 Vision 2 1.3 Business idea 2 1.4 The human resource idea 2 1.5 Limitations 2 2 Empirics 3 2.1 IKEA’s presence in the global market 3 2.2 IKEA going global 4 2.3 Managing foreign establishments 5 2.4 IKEA in China 6 2.4.1 Duplication system 6 2.4.2 Training 6 2.4.3 Vacant positions 6 2.4.4 Social Responsibilities 7 2.4.5 Staffing 8 3 Analysis & Discussion 10 4 Conclusions 13 5 References 14 5.1 Articles 14 5
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Spanish Cultural Dimensions. Through this report‚ based on the Hofstede’s cultural dimensions‚ we will try to clarify the main features of the Spanish culture. To get this target we will use a few proverbs or traditional expressions from Spain and relate them to Hofstede’s theory. This way we will be able to understand and know a little bit more about how is the Spanish culture and how it differentiates from other cultures. The first proverb we are going to use says: “La union hace la fuerza”
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1. Today I would like to present you the United Kingdom described in six Geert Hofstede’s dimensions. 2. Separated from the European continent by the North Sea and English Channel‚ the United Kingdom includes England‚ Scotland‚ Wales‚ and Northern Ireland. England and Wales were united in 1536. The United Kingdom is the 22nd-most populous country‚ with an estimated 64.1 million inhabitants. It is a constitutional monarchy and has a parliamentary system of governance. Its capital city is London‚
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The Influence of Culture on Human Resource Management Processes and Practices. Dianna Stone and Eugene Stone-Romero‚ eds. New York: Psychology Press‚ 2008. 340 pp. $38.25‚ paper. Although national and international workforces have become increasingly culturally diverse‚ human resource systems and processes often lag in adapting to multiculturalism in ways that will reduce the cultural bias of existing human resource systems and enhance organizational effectiveness. Nearly 15 years ago Sharon Lobel
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Chapter 17 Read chapter seventeen (“Human Resource Policies and Practices”) in your e-text‚ answer these questions‚ and then watch the chapter 17 quiz video for course mentor clarification. 1) Which of the following terms refers to the actions that actively damage the organization‚ including stealing‚ behaving aggressively toward co-workers‚ or being late or absent? a) citizenship b) counter-productivity c) task orientation d) satisficing e) groupthink Answer: 2) Which of the following
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Cross-Cultural Human Resources Management Abstract: As human resources management and organizational culture are closely related‚ it is very meaningful to study human resource management from the cultural and cross-cultural perspective. Effective management of cross cultural human resources is the guarantee of Chinese enterprises running successfully under cross cultural background and region. The article concerns that the following aspects should be understanding of the cross-cultural human resources
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transcended typical cultural boundaries of geographic location‚ race‚ and age through the collective love
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Effects of Human Resource Management Practices Abstract This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the nature and effects of human resource practices (HRM) in the Finnish manufacturing sector. In the analysis‚ we use the novel survey on HRM practices‚ based on a representative random sample from the population of the Finnish manufacturing firms who had 50 or more employees in 2005. In the sample‚ we have firm-level information on several HRM and employee participation practices of 398 firms
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