Case Study - JKL International plc. International Human Resource Management

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Case Study - JKL International plc.

International Human Resource Management

Contents

4Case Study- JKL International plc. International Human Resource Management �

4Introduction �

4Organisational Context (Case Study) �

5Part One: Expatriates Management and Cross culture management in Multinational Corporations �

5Introduction �

5Expatriates and Organisation Problems and Proposals for Changes �

5Expatriates �

Organisation 7

Conclusion 8

Part Two: 9Appraise The Decentralised Managerial Systems of JKL applied in Russian Affiliate �

9Introduction �

9Strengths and Weakness of JKL's and Zagorski's Managerial Structure �

10National Culture Differences �

10Relevant Cases �

11Forecast �

11Conclusion �

11Conclusion and Recommendations �

13Reference �

17Appendix A �

18Appendix B �

19Appendix C �

20Appendix D �

21Appendix E �

22Appendix F �

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Case Study- JKL International plc.

International Human Resource Management

Introduction

With the trend of globalisation, the number of multinational companies is constantly increasing as well as expatriates (Business Recorder, 2011).

Expatriate management now is an essential issue of human resource department because it takes a large amount of budget from the corporation. It is inevitable for expatriates to face culture barriers in subsidiaries because of unique national cultures in all countries over the world.

National culture is ''cultural experiences, beliefs, learned behaviour patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation'' (Neale et al, 2006, p.26). A national culture will significantly affect any employee working in firms and furthermore, national culture will influence the management framework in a company as well accompanied with organisational culture so that cross culture management is helpful not only for the supervisors' decisions but also for employees especially for expatriates (Chen, 2006, p. 2). In the case study of JKL, it showed a range of problems in their expatriates which related national cultures and JKL will implement a British managerial system into its...