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GLOBALIZATION AND hUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Rima Česynienė
Assoc. Professor vilnius University Department of Management vilnius, saulėtekio al. 9 Tel. (370 5) 236 6134 e-mail: rima.cesyniene@ef.vu.lt
Globalization represents the structural making of the world characterized by the free flow of technology and human resources across national boundaries as well as the spread of Information Technology and mass media presenting an ever-changing and competitive business environment. The article deals with the practical consequences of globalization for human resource management (HRM). Globalization makes national culture an increasingly strategic issue that has to be faced and properly managed. The
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Opposing forces managers need to balance in international organizations. Source: created by the author with reference to Evans P. and Doz Y
they urge that such forces should be that need to be balanced. the analogy of considered not as binary, either/or deci- the human personality is a useful one. Just sions, but rather as complementary forces as any aspect of the personality taken to
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an extreme is unhealthy and dysfunctional, the same is true for organizations. Thus, instead of trying to maximize anything (decentralization, teamwork, formality, and so on), an organisation should seek to ensure that it maintains a minimal threshold of desirable attributes. The whole challenge of managing across cultures is about balancing the seemingly opposing values and practices in such a ways as to create advantages from them. The research of Evans and Doz is particularly relevant to all areas of strategic HR across cultures. In addition to recognizing that dualities exist and must be balanced, it is clear that HRM requirements become less a matter of having the right people at the right place at the right time, but more a matter of integrating selection, reward and appraisal practices within organizational values which will allow a balanced outcome under a range of cultural conditions.
2. HRM in selected countries: trends and values
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This topic is one that I have had extensive exposure to and have participated in at different managerial levels over the last twenty years.
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