The world may be getting flatter but a recent report by human resources firm Kelly Services on recruitment in the Asia-Pacific countries suggests that HR professionals need to devise “distinct, and often quite different, hiring, retention and reward strategies in different regions.” As Martin Nicholls, vice president of global solutions and services for Asia Pacific at Kelly Services notes, “As globalization increases, I guess the gap will narrow, but it’s pretty wide as of now.”
According to R. Ravi Kumar, professor of organizational behavior and human resources management at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, culture-specific behavior has decreased as the workforce has become more globally-distributed. He predicts that in the future, “HR practices will get more and more standardized. However, culture-specific behavior will never be negligible, and however diminishing, it will remain vital.”
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