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CHAPTER
15
Global Human Resource
Management
Key Issues
• What are the pros and cons of different approaches
to staffing policy in international business?
• Why do managers fail in foreign postings? How
can such managers be helped to succeed?
• What is the role of training, management
development, and compensation practices in
managing international human resources?
Expatriate Managers
• Managers assigned to to unit in country other than
that of their national origin
• High failure rates for US MNCs (in order of
importance)
• Spouse cannot adjust culturally
• Manager cannot adjust culturally
• Other family adjustment problems
• Manager’s lack of personal or emotional maturity
• Manager’s inability to cope with broader
responsibility overseas
Expatriate Managers