11th August 2008

The role of human resources is dealt with in many different ways across the world. The challenge for an organisation moving in to the international arena is to be flexible enough to respect the individual HR function of different countries, whilst building a global benefits and HR strategy that incorporates all.

Multinationals face the dilemma of whether to control benefits and rewards centrally or to keep them controlled locally. The advantage of the latter is that regional differences and local customs will always be taken in to consideration, without damaging the existing, successful employee relationships of various different countries.

Individual organisations now have to come to a conclusion about what will benefit everyone and which strategies will help achieve the overall goals of the business, globally.