BE479-7-SP-CO:
International Human Resource Management
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2023/24
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Inactive
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
10
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
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This module examines HRM in an international context. Foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown dramatically over the past 25 years. This FDI manifests itself as foreign affiliates of international companies. Currently more than 800,000 of these foreign affiliates are in existence, all of which need to be staffed.
These staffing needs bring with them unique challenges that domestic firm do not face. This module will explore the additional complexities introduced by conducting HRM across national borders.
HRM is a complex and often contested topic in a domestic context. Once organisations start operating across national borders, these complexities and challenges grow exponentially.
This module will explore these complexities and outline some of the key differences between domestic and international HRM and look into the additional challenges emanating from having to fulfil various HR functions in an international context. A particular emphasis will be put on the management of globally mobile employees.
Students will gain an insight into:
1. The key HR challenges facing organisations working internationally;
2. The impact of national culture on how individuals react to HR interventions in different countries;
3. Differences in HR policies and practices in different countries;
4. The management of globally mobile employees.
On completing this module, students will be able to understand, analyse and critically evaluate:
1) how organisational and HR strategies are shaped by and developed in response to internal and external environmental factors.
2) globalisation and international forces and how they shape and impact on organisational and HR strategies and HR practices.
3) analyse and evaluate the major features of national and international employment markets from which organisations source staff and ways in which these markets evolve or change.
Skills for your professional life (Transferable Skills)
- Enhance your written communication skills through preparing a logically coherent and cogently argued integrated HR project
- Develop your research skills through locating and retrieving information from a variety of online and offline sources in preparing your integrated HR project
- Critically evaluate information from a variety of sources when building a compelling argument in preparing your integrated HR project
- Being innovative in building your own case when preparing your integrated HR project
- Develop your commercial awareness by researching the real-life commercial context of the company at the centre of your integrated HR project
No additional information available.
This module is taught through weekly lectures, delivered in 2h taught sessions.
In addition to attendance at lectures and classes, students are expected to engage in private study for a minimum of 10 hours per module per week and to work a 40 hour week throughout the programme.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Huiyan Fu, email: h.fu@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Huiyan Fu
h.fu@essex.ac.uk
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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