HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

International Human Resource Management



Morris & Co - the people challenges of internationalisation

Question 1

There are many human resources risks and challenges facing Morris & Co in undertaking the US acquisition. Issues facing HR are expected to change dramatically in the next decades. Thus, HR professionals must play special roles in dealing with these changes and must develop specific competencies to support these roles. The role of HR managers as change agents is vital to understand the objectives and benefits of properly sizing process and possible conflicts, turning the resistance into energy for change, especially when operating in a different country.

New demographic factors such as any human group, the American workforce, are in constant evolution and change. All people experience both positive and negative changes-in their education, age, health, income and so on. In most cases, the sense that they take these changes can be determined because they tend to occur rather slowly. Also, it is often possible to measure accurately. The economic difficulties experienced by American economies in recent years are significant, but one undeniable fact is that even in these difficult circumstances, many companies have managed to consolidate, grow and prosper. Especially when economic conditions are bad, companies, and the existing membership strive to find new answers to the challenges (Ulrich, 1995, pp. 473-96).

Cultural attitudes of a society may be the most important elements for the performance of an organization. For example, the public's basic attitude has changed in recent years, the young professional respect. A change of this kind can have profound changes in the way a company serves the community. Technology exerts profound effects on personnel management. At the turn of transport, for example, a strong band of workers can unload a truck full of boxes of fruit in an hour, but a technician equipped with a suitable hoist manages to take the same task within five minutes.

Few challenges are as important for businesses as those generated by governments of each country, which constitute the so-called formal sector. The government of the country and different levels of authorities and agencies, set rules, dictating parameters and in general tend to directly influence the company's relationship with his staff. In the case, of America, the staffs have been making a number of advances over the years, and the various governments to ensure that companies comply with the provisions issued in all fields. For this reason, professional personnel management should be kept informed of changes that may occur in the provisions of Social Security, labour laws, the rules in force in terms of training, and so on. If the professional takes a proactive perspective, sometimes you can even stay ahead of the official sector changes will be implemented (Werther, 2000, pp. 13-14).

In addition to the external challenges it faces, the organization also has to resolve internal challenges. This derives from that commonly encountered numerous organizations, which are not always harmonize with each other. The objectives of sales, financial, service, production, ...