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What is the nature of the teams?

Teams have emerged as the most important group phenomenon in the organization. Earlier the importance of the team work was confined to sports activities but now in business also team work as become very important. In the past business organizations were focused around individuals but now teams have become the primary means for achieving the organizational goals. Some times the terms team and group are used interchangeably but they are not the same. While a work group consist of a number of a person that report to common superior and have face to face interaction and there is a certain level of inter-dependence in carrying out the tasks but they performance of a team can provide individuals results and collective products also. We can say that though a team is also a group but it has some characteristics in greater degree as compare to ordinary groups. These characteristics include a higher commitment towards the goals of the group and a higher degree of inter-dependence and interaction. These characteristics make a team different from an ordinary group. There are some difference between work groups and teams. While the basic purpose of a work group is to interact for the purpose of sharing information, the basic purpose of work team is to perform collectively. While the work group must have a strong and clear focused leader, teams generally do not have clear leaders and the leadership roles are also shared. The work group meets through the formal and efficient meetings the teams are encouraged to have open ended active problems solving meetings. The functioning of the work group that it discusses decides and delegates the work, the functioning of the team is to discuss beside and then do the real work also.

What is cross cultural negotiation?

Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more parties who try to work out a solution to their problems. It is a process that can take place at the corporate or the international level. Negotiations take place because both the parties recognize or acknowledge that there is a conflict of interest and try to get a better deal out of these negotiations.

Cross cultural negotiation require the parties to resolve the psychology factors including the attitudes, goals, expectation and the styles of persuasion of the parties. All negotiations require planning but it becomes all the more important in case of international negotiation. Planning may include they knowledge about the taxation procedure and other legal requirements in a country. Having political data and the information related to the work force available in a country could also form a part of the planning for international negotiations.

What is the concept of International Human resource management?

International Human resource management is the process of procuring allocating and effectively utilizing the human resources in a multinational corporation. While HR Managers in these organization have to integrate HR policies and practices across a number of subsidiaries spread in several countries so that the organization goals can be achieve at the same time they have to make these policies and practices sufficiently flexible to allow significant differences in these policies in different countries.

International HRM is concerned with identifying and understanding how the MNC’s manage their geographically dispersed worked force in order to leverage their HR resources for obtaining local as well as global competitive advantage.

What is a difference between International and Domestic Human Resource Management?

In the past much importance was not given to the difference between International and Domestic HRM due to the similarities and continuities between the two but in this era of globalization the study of human resource management in an international context has become important.

Though broadly speaking international HRM includes the same activities that are involved in domestic HRM but while the domestic HRM performs these activities within the boundaries of a country, the international HRM has to perform these activities in at least three countries. These are the parent country where the organization is headquartered, host country where the unit is located and the countries from where the employees or the human resources of the organization are coming.

Thus we see that in international HRM employee can be either from the parent country, the host country or the third country. This makes the knowledge of the conditions in these countries an integral part of the international human resource management.

What is organizational development?

Organizational development is a systematic application of the knowledge of behavioural science in the planned development and the reinforcement of organizational strategies, structures and other processes for improving the effectiveness of the organizational.

In encourages collaboration between the leaders and the members of the organization especially the teams that are particular important for accomplishing tasks Organizational development concentrate on the human and social sight of organization but in the process it intervenes in the technological and structural sides of the organizational also.

It focuses on a complete change in the system and views the organization has a complex social system.

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