This document discusses managing a global workforce and cross-cultural management. It addresses the importance of cross-cultural management, including insufficient awareness, understanding, willingness, and skills regarding cultural differences. The document also discusses organizational culture in multinational corporations, staffing philosophies for international enterprises, forms of international human resource management, and how human resource management activities differ materially for domestic versus international operations in the context of globalization.

2. Managing A Global
Workforce

3. Md. Abu Saleh
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4. Cross-cultural management is the study of management in a
cross-cultural context. It includes the study of the influence of
societal culture on managers and management practice as well
as the study of the cultural orientations of individual
managers and organization members.
Importance of Cross Cultural Management-
1. Insufficient awareness of existence of differences
2. Insufficient understanding
3. Insufficient willingness
4. Insufficient level of abilities and skills.

5.  Functions of organizational culture
 Organizations Culture in MNCs
 Staffing Philosophies for International
Enterprises-
 The ethnocentric approach
 The polycentric approach
 The geocentric approach.

6. The term, Multinational Enterprises (MNEs), refers business
organizations operating on an international level or having
international commerce. It is a traditional term that refers to
organizations that conduct business operations in places
outside their mother countries. MNEs can be subdivided into
three categories, multinational MNEs, International MNEs
and global (transnational) MNEs.
 Forms of International HRM
 Operating parent-country firms overseas
 Operating foreign firms in the home country.

7. The differences between domestic and international HRM are
more striking than their similarities. In the context of
globalization, HRM activities are differ materially from its
domestic operations.
 Source
 More HR Activities
 Broader Perspective
 Effects of Expatriates and Local Workforce Mix.