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Globalization has compelled organizations to increasingly deal with a diversified workforce, a workforce with different cultural values. As well these organizations are required to meet different human resource regulations imposed by host governments and labour unions. They are required to coordinate and integrate their global human resource practices. The objective of the course is to provide students with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to manage human resources in global organizations. The course includes discussion of the HR challenges in multinational companies, the HR functions of recruitment, selection, compensation, training and development, cross cultural performance evaluation, as well as host country industrial relations.

Prerequisites: BMG 215 and BHR 224