Global HRM and Information Technology
Global HRM and Information Technology Figure 01 What is Global HRM? Under the global context, understanding how multinational Corporations (MNCs) can operate more effectively becomes more important than ever. This links an MNC with the need for an internationalized strategy that can direct its subsidiaries’ operation not only in the home country but also in different parts of the world. There are several reasons to develop an IHRM strategy: 1) at any level, HRM is important to strategy implementation (Hamel & Prahalad, 1986; Schuler and Jackson 2001); 2)major strategic components of multinational enterprises have a major influence on international management issues, functions, and policies and practices(Edstrom and Galbraith, 1977; Robers et al., 1998); 3) 3) the attainment of the concerns and goals of MNCs can be influenced by many of these characteristics of IHRM (Kobrin,1992); Human resource management at a public or private company that operates across multi...