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Impact of Globalization on Human Resource Management

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Impact of Globalization on Human Resource Management
Bhushan Kapoor, Professor and Chair, Information Systems & Decision Sciences, Cal State University, Fullerton, USA

ABSTRACT The roles and responsibilities of Human Resources departments are transforming as the modern business faces pressures of globalization. The global supply of talent is short of its long-term demand, and the gap is a challenge for employers everywhere. The shortage between the demand and supply of talent is likely to continue to increase, notably for high skilled workers and for the next generation of business executives. Now organizations need to place greater emphasis on attracting human capital rather than financial capital. Global staffing and management of a …show more content…

Availability of Low Cost Labor from Emerging Countries The opportunity has never been greater for multinationals to attract top talent from emerging countries, such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China, or to outsource work to these countries. Global population growth differs greatly between developed and developing countries. In the developed countries, USA, EU, and Japan, the current annual rate of growth is less than 0.3 per cent, while in the rest of the world the population is increasing almost six times as fast. According to McKinsey Global Institute, there are approximately 33 million potential professionals in emerging markets and they are growing very quickly. The stock of suitable, young professional talent in emerging markets is growing at 5.5 per cent annually, while the number in developed countries is growing at just 1 per cent annually (McKinsey Global Institute, 2005 - II). The total number of university-educated workers in low-wage countries far exceeds the number for higher wage countries. Currently, India produces as many young engineers as the United States, and China produces more than twice as many. Russia produces 10 times as many finance and accounting professionals as Germany. According to the International Organization for Migration, there were an estimated 214 million international migrants in the world in 2010, and fifty-seven per cent of all migrants live in high-income countries (World Migration Report, 2010). The number of migrants is

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