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SYLLABUS
Global HRM

Objectives: This course is designed to make the student manage the following issues with respect to expatriate employees in
MNC's and other organizations employing professionals from different countries. On completion of this course, student will
be able to:
1. Take decisions regarding recruiting methods, selection procedures and staffing decisions for expatriate employees.
2. Design a training program using an effective framework for evaluating training needs, designing a training program,
and evaluating training results.
3. Properly interpret salary survey data, design a pay structure and monitor the implementation of performance-based pay
system and design employee benefit schemes.
Sr. No. Topics
1. Introduction to global HRM drivers of globalization, variables that moderate differences between HRM and
GHRM. Global HRM trends and future challenges: Ethics in international business, strategies IHRM.
2. The organisation context: The path of global status and control mechanism. Sustaining international business
operations, Globalization emerging global economy, globalisation of market, production investment and
technology.
3. Recruiting and selecting staff for international assignment: issues in staff selection, factors
Moderating performance, selection criteria, dual – career couples, re-entry and career issues: the repatriation
process, multinational responses, designing a repatriation programme.
4. Training and development: role of expatriate training, pre-departure training, developing staff through
international assignment.

5. International compensation: approaches of international compensation, key components of an International
compensation programme, executive compensation.

6. Global HR issues in the host context: standardization and adaption of work practices, retaining, developing and
retrenching staff, language standardization, monitoring HR practices.
7. International industrial relations: issues, responses of trade unions to multinational, regional Integration.
8. Multinational performance management: Challenge, performance management and performance appraisal of
international employees, appraisal of HCN employees.

9. HRM in cross border merges and acquisitions: Motives behind mergers and acquisitions, HR Interventions.
10. Understanding human behaviour in global perspective – issues in organization culture, cultural diversity at
work, motivation and communication across culture, cross cultural leadership, multi cultural teams. Comparison
of Indian HRM with those of UK, USA, Japan and China.