Discuss the challenges and opportunities multinational organisations face when seeking to recruit a more diverse workforce across different subsidiaries

This paper deals with the core theme of Human Resource Management in which the student has to creata a report that carries the discussion of challenges, issues, and opportunities that multinational organisations encounter in the recruitment and selection process. You are supposed to explain the element of allowing diversity with the reference to geocentric, ethnocentric and polycentric approach in order to identify similarities and differences. Moreover, you have to focus on the following points in detail:

• The factors that are involved in flexible recruitment process

• The distribution of information and organizational learning

• The concept of cross‐cultural theories

• The phenomenon of global talent management

Instructions 

HRM93 Exam January 2018

Discuss the challenges and opportunities multinational organisations face when seeking to recruit a more diverse workforce across different subsidiaries

Challenges organizations face include of recruitment and selection methods that are subjected to regional practices dominant with a particular region. Organizations have to decide whether they are going to exert influence from the centre by getting policies to be equally applied throughout the organization. Allowing diversity can lead to conflict and disagreement between different parts of the organization with the result of generating more demands for how employee differences are managed. Good answers here will make reference to the geocentric, ethnocentric and polycentric approach in order to identify similarities and differences and how they can translate to the recruitment and selection methods.

Opportunities include the creation of a more flexible recruitment and selection approach where multinationals utilise strengths and as these are situated between and across the different subsidiaries. The distribution of information and organizational learning can become an important advantage for identify methods by which change can be successfully integrated into the organization. Students will need to draw on their knowledge of the cross‐cultural theories and global talent management to give depth to their answers.