EQUIPOS

Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the systems that the American parent company uses to control its Mexican subsidiary, Equipos.

Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the systems that the American parent company uses to control its Mexican subsidiary, Equipos.

Introduction

The paper focuses on the evaluation of effectiveness of the systems that the American parent company uses to control its Mexican subsidiary, Equipos. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten and explore the significance of human resource management in Equipos. This paper aims to enlighten different perspectives of human resource management; in addition, the paper discusses that the human resource management is concerned with employee management in Equipos.

Discussion

The managers/facilitators of Equipos were specifically asked what a company could do to facilitate organizational learning as well as what their organization had done and were doing. Human resource management is a dynamic field, evolving quickly from its early focus on understanding the patterns of impact of HRM practices and systems on performance to embracing the mediating mechanisms. At the same time, researchers in this area continue to push the boundaries of what we know and are engaging in exciting research that delves deeper into the mediating mechanisms of how HRM systems work. The definition of HRM reinforces the notion that HRM practices create valuable resources within the Equipos Mexican subsidiary that are capable of producing competitive advantage through people. Indeed, more than two decades of research has accumulated a vast body of knowledge which suggests that HRM practices that impact the motivation, knowledge, skills, and behaviours of employees lead to better employee, multi-national corporation al, and financial outcomes (Verluyten 2000, p. 56).

'Culture' is a concept used both by academic researchers and management practitioners. It underpins approaches to research methodology in different areas of the social sciences, and it informs human resource policies and practices. Greater clarity in our use of words relating to culture, and in our conceptualization of what culture is, will help communication across academic disciplines and between academics and practitioners. This will help all of us, both in our understanding of the world and the development of practical approaches to the management of people (Verluyten 2000, p. 59).

The former research couple, two anthropologists, recognized the problem of scale and argued that the formulation and application of cultural concepts had been too particularized to single cultures to permit systematic comparisons between cultures and, at the same time, too grossly generalized to allow for the variations within cultures.

The latter has been chosen for comparison as both are well known and highly respected in their fields of multi-national corporation al culture and cross-cultural management. It has been shown that culture is a very complex term and very difficult to define. Many researchers have made attempts to conceptualize culture and to define its boundaries. At first glance, it seems that definitions and concepts in the different discipline areas differ. However, at a closer look there are clearly similarities in the different approaches and terms used to identify and define ...