Managing People in a Global Context

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Select any two countries of your choice (for example, Australia and China). Choose one of the countries as the parent-country of your organisation or an organisation
you know well (i.e. where the headquarters is located) and the other as the host-country (i.e. where the subsidiary is located).

Imagine your organisation has established a subsidiary in the host-country and has selected you as the global human resources manager to design (and set up) the human
resource management (HRM) function of the subsidiary.

Select any two International HRM practices from the following four options:

recruitment and selection
training and development
performance management
reward and compensation.
Write a report that discusses the following:

A brief description of your chosen organisation, the host-country and the two International HRM practices from the above options (i.e. briefly explain why these two
IHRM practices have been selected with respect to your organisation)
A detailed discussion and analysis of the design and implementation of the two International HRM practices in the subsidiary (i.e. drawing from the relevant
literature, analyse how the IHRM practices should be performed in order to be effective). Include the benefits and the challenges of IHRM practices taking the
hostcountry culture into account.
Based on the above analysis, discuss the following:
Whether IHRM practices should be standardised or localised and why
What kind of control should the parent-company exert on the subsidiary (i.e. structural-formal control or cultural control)
What role the subsidiary should play in the host-country (i.e. global innovator, integrated player, implementer and local innovator).
Please provide brief recommendations at the end (i.e. after the conclusion) to suggest what kind of support the subsidiary will require from the parent-company to
implement the chosen HR practices.
ensure that all the sections of your report are well connected and there is logical flow in the discussion.