Human Resources and Globalization

Globalization has certainly changed the way that HR does business, enabled by technology advances. HR organizations that embrace globalization opportunities are finding ways to deliver their strategic value in that new environment. So, human capital plans can be presented that take advantage of a global workforce, talent can be identified and aligned with customers, no matter where they may be. Technology offers the capability to maintain contact and information flow to employees--through web sites, e-mails, webinar, video conference and virtual sites such as Second Life. People come to the Internet Sourcing webinars from the US, Canada, the UK, India... this is exciting.

The enormous cultural diversity in today's global economy makes evaluating, assessing, recruiting and managing talent a challenge - perhaps the challenge - for transnational companies. There are several key steps companies and their talent leaders can take to meet that challenge and build a global workforce that delivers high performance with high integrity.

The one factor that will always be a major consideration