IHRM Staffing Practices What are the best IHRM staffing practices for an international assignment?

Big companies have already expanded their businesses all around the world and now other companies are also following the track. The trend of international businesses has changed the traditional ways of managing people. An IHR manager has lot more to do for the organization as compared to the local HR manager. The foremost responsibility of an IHR manager is to hire the appropriate employee for his/her international organization and assignments.

An IHR manager has to deal with number of challenges when preparing for an international assignment. Appropriate HR policies and procedures developed as according to the assignment requirements. While selecting the candidate for the particular international job, an IHR manager has to make right assessment and identification of the candidate. Moreover, the cost projections calculated like which decision would be more cost effective,...

In addition to the basic expenses, organization also needs to take care of an employee's living, transport, appropriate compensation as per the working environment and family support.
International organizations' managers have any of the four mindsets that are ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric and geocentric. These four mindsets define international staffing policies.

In Ethnocentric Staffing Policy, the parent country nationals are prioritized and thus key management positions reserved for parent country citizens. This policy is usually applied where there is doubt of lack of management talent in the host country nationals. Moreover, the organization wants to have tighter control, maintain a unified corporate culture, and transfer parent firm's core competencies to all of the other foreign subsidiaries.

In Polycentric Staffing Policy, the host country nationals are hired for key management positions. However, the…