Human Resources Best Practice as a Performance Intervention in a Global Context. Facing Cross-cultural Challenges

Submitted Assignment from the year 2015 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, grade: 72, University of Wolverhampton, course: MA in Management, language: English, abstract: In a global economic environment where competition changes rapidly, HR decisions have a crucial role to play in influencing the MNC’s performance, by improving efficiency and contributing to revenue growth. Personnel Management (PM) has always been considered a vital function, a function that was mainly dealing with routine administrative activities such as hiring employees and maintaining records. The extensive competition, mainly due to technology change, deregulation and globalisation, increased the PM’s operations and upgraded the concept and perspective over it. By moving on and replacing PM with Human Resource Management (HRM), organisations started recognising people as an important asset and as a business partner. This changed the role of the HR department, engaging more activities and practices such as communication, recruiting, training, development, motivation, etc. making HRM a more dynamic operation, designed to maximise personnel’s performance. According to Mello (2014), Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) refers to the strategic concept of HR that gives the opportunity to HR professionals to play a more substantial role in the success of the organisation by developing systems and policies aligned with the MNC’s targets and goals. Obviously, SHRM does not replace HRM, but it empowers its role.