1. The global enviernment
AbdulrhmanAalzahrani
Fahad Adel
Ayman Alsultan
Ali Aldossary

2. Outline: Introduction
International human resource management strategy.
Understanding the culture environment.
Wages and conditions in foreign plants.
Understanding the political and legal. environment.
General human resource in international business.
Toyota wants only the best.

3. Introduction
Moving production to foreign factories to capitalize on lower labor costs.
fewer benefits , fewer regulations and tariff- free
When GM moved to Mexico they experienced a very high turn over.

4. Global issues in international human resources management
1- the development of an international human resources management strategy.
2- developing an understanding of the cultural environment of human resources management.
3- developing an understanding of the political and legal environment of international business

5. International human resources management strategy
Ethnocentric staffing model
Polycentric staffing model
Geocentric staffing model

6. Developing an international human resource management strategy
Developing an understanding of the culture environment of human resource management
Developing an understanding of the political and legal environment of human resource management

7. Definition of culture: is the set of value, symbol, beliefs, and language that guide human behavior within that culture.
Cultural beliefs and values.
Culture differences.
Language is another is another important culture dimension that could affect international human resource management practices.

8. According to a Dutch scholar he defined five dimension of culture:
Power distance.
Individualism vs. collectivism.
Masculinity vs. femininity.
Uncertainty avoidance.
Time orientation.

9. Political legal issues Economic communication government stability
Trade incentives
Political legal issues
Economic communication
government
stability
Trade controls

10. Wages and conditions in foreign plants
point
Counterpoint
. Lower labor cost.
. Wages are lower in these countries.
. Living is lower in these countries.
.wages paid better than alternatives.
. Providing jobs.
. Leads to problems of unemployment.
. U.S. companies could become a source of change.
. Work under appalling conditions.
. Social responsibility.

11. Understanding the political and legal environment
Government stability.
Trade incentives.
Trade controls.
Economic communities.

12. Differences in culture, level of economic development and legal system
International business
Working condition compensation, and cost of living
Determination of the most appropriate source of employees

13. Toyota wants only the best
Toyota faced real challenges in staffing the facility in USA.
The firm of Toyota initially had over 100,000 for 2,700 production jobs.
Toyota did not stack off in hiring rigor.