The Role of Culture in Human Resource Management Practices

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For this assignment, you will write an essay that assesses the role of culture in human resource management practices within a global organization. Give examples of how cultural differences may affect at least two human resource (HR) functions. Examples of these functions may include recruitment and hiring, employee and/or management development, performance reviews, promotions, compensation, and benefits, but you are not limited to these functions.

Your essay should follow the guidelines below:

  • Writing should include proper grammar, sentence structure, and writing mechanics.
  • The organization of the paper should be logical, and you should include an introduction section with a clear thesis statement as well as a conclusion section.
  • Your paper should be at least three pages in length.
  • You must use a minimum of two outside sources.
  • All sources used must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations in APA format.
  • Your paper must be formatted in APA style to include a title page, running head, and reference page.

There are two additional references identified below that you may find helpful when completing this assignment, but you are not required to use them.

The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited. (2015). What's next: Future global trends affecting your organization: Engaging and integrating a global workforce. Retrieved from http://futurehrtrends.eiu.com/report-2015/executiv...

Von Glinow, M. A., Drost, E. A., & Teagarden, M. B. (2002). Converging on IHRM best practices: Lessons learned from a globally distributed consortium on theory and practice. Human Resource Management, 41(1), 123. Retrieved from https://libraryresources.columbiasouthern.edu/logi...

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The Role of Culture in Human Resource Management Practices
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Most of the time managers from across the world who are appointed to manage global
organizations tend to bring with them their abilities and knowledge on human resource to this to
this new and bigger enterprises. However after some time, they realize that some practices do not
usually work to give them the desired results, and soon they find themselves struggling to figure
out how to improve their management practice.
Human resource management requires a deep understanding of internal influences to an
organization as well as the external environment of the same organization (Rotter, 1966). The
internal factors influencing an organization represents the internal work culture, while the external
environment of an organization is represented by institutional culture (resources available,
ownership status and nature of the industry) as well as the social-cultural environment (power
distance and partnership among others). Both environments are influenced by physical and sociocultural environment (legal, social, ecological, political, and historical forces). Enterprise and
social-cultural environment affect internal work culture and HRM practices as a whole.
In this context, Culture can be termed as common patterns of assumptions, value, beliefs,
and norms of behavior of human groups (represented by organization, institutions, and societies).
This is to say that the cultural variables that may inf...


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