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Unit 12: Basics of International HRM

12.6 review Questions notes

1. What is international human resource management?

2. Discuss the main characteristics and nature of IHRM.
3. What are the factors affecting international human resource management?
4. Discuss the strategic functions of IHRM.
5. Discuss the different approaches to international staffing policy.
6. What are the important determinants of international staffing policy?

7. Compare and contrast between the different staffing approaches.
8. How can we reduce expatriate failure rates?
9. When does a firm pursue an ethnocentric staffing policy?
10. Enumerate the factors which make international HRM complex and challenging.

answers: self assessment

1. Geocentric 2. Senior positions

3. Federation 4. International
5. Polycentric 6. Host Country
7. Parent Country 8. Third Country
9. Expatriates 10. Ethnocentric

11. Geocentric 12. Relationship development
13. Willingness to communicate 14. Perceptual
15. Expatriate

12.7 further readings

Books Justin Paul, International Business, (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall of India.

Charles W L Hill, Arun K Jain, International Business, 2009, Tata McGraw Hill,
New Delhi.
James H. Taggart and Michael C. Mcdormitt, The Essentials of International Business,
Prentice Hall of India, 2000, p.34.
K. Aswathappa, International Business, 2009, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.

Online links http://www.cipd.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/9A2ACF38-99A1-441A-99EA-
BFE9BA6D6B0B/0/9781843981596sc.pdf

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