A challenge to the human resource and organizational function in international firms

Tex Smiley

European Management Journal, 1989, vol. 7, issue 2, 189-197

Abstract: In the present climate of global business there are four "movements" presenting a challenge to the ways human resources and organization are managed in international corporations. These are: the decreasing usefulness of strategic management as a means of managing corporations; the shift from multi-domestic to global strategies; the re-conceptualization of organizational forms; and the consequences of technological advance. Tex Smiley explores these and suggests that they all cause uncertainty and instability. Consequently, managers of human resource and organization functions must try to reduce organizational rigidities in their corporations, and try to encourage managers to think and behave in new ways. Only then will corporations respond successfully to these new changes in the arena of international competition.

Date: 1989
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