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International Human Resource Management

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How does international human resource management differ from domestic HRM? What challenges do these differences present for HR professionals?

Answer 1

Difference between International and Domestic human resource management :

1. Domestic human resource management is related to managing the employees in one country while International human resource management needs to manage employee within Parent country, Host country and the Third country.

2. Managers do not need to deal with cultural differences in domestic human resource management while in international human resource management, managers need to overcome multi cultural differences.

3. International human resource management deals with broader range of perspective due to globalization while in domestic international management perspective is usually narrow.

Challenges :

1. While working on international assignments human resource managers need to maintain control and coordination with the foreign subsidiaries and learn about the local environment.

2. Employee satisfaction in both domestic and international human resource management is a challenge and motivation plays a vital role to retain the talented employees.