ADMS 4420 Midterm: 4470 International Human Resources Midterm
23 Mar 2017
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Class 1: intro: multinational enterprise: a firm which owns or controls business activities in more than one foreign country. Once you sell across the border- even on ebay- you are international. An international business even without employees- not necessarily a large corporation. Not as (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) as it see(cid:373)s, do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed hr, until it gets larger and employees become essential. No longer oh&s, industrial relations, but the codes in all the countries you operate in. 40 deaths in china plant, no big deal while 1 death in canada is a huge deal- formal training, lawsuit, On a domestic and international level, hr is doing the same things human resource planning, staffing (recruitment, selections, placement), performance management, training and development, compensation (remuneration) and benefits, industrial relations et(cid:272). The country where the subsidiary is, where we want to move into and set up a plant.
