International businesses are required to recruit, train, motivate, nurture and retain apart from effectively utilizing their services at all levels of functioning be its corporate office, at the foreign production units plants, therefore, the process of procuring, allocating and effectively utilizing human resources in international business is called International Human Resource Management.
The primary features are
- HR Planning across the boundaries to ensure strategic resource implementation
- Recruiting and selecting the right talent in line with the organization’s policies
- Training and developing the selected talent with the required skills of working across boundaries to adapt into cross cultural environments
- Designing expatriate wage structures appropriately to ensure conflict-free workflow
- Appraising expatriate performance with geocentric involvement of home and host country managers
- Repatriating expatriate employees upon completion of project while taking care of reverse culture shock and rehabilitation requirements