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About the Global HR Discpline

The Global Human Resources Discipline deals with all aspects of HR within the worldwide context, including U.S.-based entities doing business internationally or non-U.S.-based entities operating in their own locale or worldwide. It includes matters such as management of global workforces, expatriation and repatriation, HR practices and laws around the world and those arising in specific countries and regions. It also includes matters that focus on careers, communications, legal and regulatory issues, technology, metrics, outsourcing and effective practices in the Global HR arena. It does not include matters involving U.S. immigration policies and visas or the requirements for verifying eligibility to work in the United States, which are encompassed in the Staffing Management Discipline.

The importance of workplace attire in different countries can't overemphasised as an increasing number of professionals travel.

Post-Copenhagen, global investors and Mercer collaborate to consider the impact of climate change on strategic asset allocation.

Compensation will always be a critical part of employment, influencing productivity, motivation, retention and much more. And HR has a strong influence and role in both the process and the policies behind it.

Understanding cross-border and corporate culture is essential for success

Leaders who are trustworthy, competent and dynamic drive many results, not the least of which are higher productivity and heightened organizational performance: Douglas J. Matthews  

Organizations that promote employee health and well-being are 3½ times more likely to encourage creativity and innovation: Right Management study

Change in leadership, either in the normal course of events or through the process of attrition, is inevitable. Yet very few companies prepare themselves for it.

Almost invariably, when a multinational branches out, it will need to employ people in a new country. Doing this is complex; getting it right can be confounding.

Leading strategy and innovation expert Vijay Govindarajan says there is no way to design a product for the American mass market and then simply adapt it for the Chinese or Indian mass market.

Here is how a rapidly exapanding home improvement retailer, OBI, developed one standardized performance evaluation system to be used for all its employees in 13 countries