Global challenges to replicating HR: The role of people, processes, and systems

✍ Scribed by Shad S. Morris; Patrick M. Wright; Jonathan Trevor; Philip Stiles; Günter K. Stahl; Scott Snell; Jaap Paauwe; Elaine Farndale

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4848
• DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20325

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Global firms often struggle to replicate practices among their culturally and geographically dispersed subsidiaries. Part of the reason for this is that certain practices, including human resource management (HRM) practices, are complex and context specific. In this study, we develop a framework to help identify how firms might overcome challenges of practice replication through alignment of information systems, application processes, and people. We find that managerial alignment of formal processes and systems, along with informal alignment of people (shared objectives), improve the capability of a multinational corporation (MNC) to replicate human resource practices across subsidiaries. We also discuss managerial implications. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.