Cultural Diversity
GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ISSUES The effects of global variations on human resources should be considered by the global human resource management. Also there are number of barriers and challenges in the ways of which influence its overall credibility. Here are some challenges and barriers that come in the way of effective global human resource management. Cultural Diversity. The biggest challenge for Global Human Resource Management is understanding and maintaining cultural diversity. Working with people from different locations or from different cultural backgrounds mean adapting the business's work style to new ideas, new ways of communicating and unfamiliar social practices . Hofstede (1980) defined that culture as ‘the collective mental programming of people in an environment’, referred to cultural values as broad tendencies ‘to prefer certain states of affairs over others’, and described organizations as ‘culture-bound’. He found that there are ...