International Human Resources Management
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For the past five years, you have been the head human resource manager for a large hotel chain with hotels located in more than 60 countries. The chain's headquarters is in the United States. You are responsible for the staffing at all of these hotels. You are speaking at a conference of human resource managers, and your topic is the "greatest challenges that you face as an IHRM". What will you say?
Dowling, P., Festing, M. and Engle, A. (2009). International Human Resource Management, (5th ed.). Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning. and please just let me know what area a pages we used...THANKS
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In the Human Resources role, the primary function is recruiting, staffing, and retaining top talent in every hotel across the globe. This function is also one of the greatest challenges of the position. The ability to staff people at every hotel is met with the challenge of identifying talent and trying to train talent in some of the emerging countries where the hotel is located. In many cases the availability of educated labor is hard to find. This will require partnering with enterprises in each country that can work as coordinators between the host country and the local area (Dowling, pg.51-54).
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As the Head of Human Resources for this Multi National Hotel chain, there are extreme challenges in the day to day operations that require a strong understanding of cultures, customs, people skills, and an in depth knowledge of how the world functions.
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