Field of research: International human resource management.
1. Introduction
With the modern day advent of internationalisation and globalisation,
international human resource management IHRM is becoming an important
concept for human resource HR practitioners in South Africa to be aware of, if
they are not already practicing it. This is vital for HR managers in multinational
corporations MNCs, international joint ventures JVs and also domestic based HR
managers who import staff from overseas. In the literature review, different view
points on HRM and IHRM are highlighted and compared. IHRM is more complex
than domestic based human resource management HRM. This statement will be
discussed in this paper, with explanations of what IHRM is, and how it differs
from domestic HRM; the effect on South African organisations with reference in
particular to the idea that the international HR manager should seek to
standardise pay and conditions of employment for managers in all operations of
the organisation.