IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A CASE STUDY OF KENYA PUBLIC CORPORATIONS Hazel Gachoka Gachunga1 Abstract Globalization has a major impact on the management of human resources in developing countries including Kenya. It has led to homogenization and convergence in organization strategies‚ structures and processes as well as in consumer choice. With accelerating globalization‚ organizations have had to change and new trends have set in even
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Globalisation Globalisation is the process that involves the movement of trade‚ money‚ economics and services and its integration with funds and investments that goes beyond the domestic‚ local and national levels of the markets in countries around the world. Nestlé is the world’s largest food company which was founded in 1866 by Henri Nestlé. It has been driven to globalisation by a wide range of factors such as economical‚ political‚ fast technology transformation and production resources
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Globalisation • US competitor-couldn’t satisfy Australian wet suit demand. • Increasing international interest in Ripcurl as a brand. • Word series surfing came to Australia. • Late 70’s Australian government provided export incentives for Australian business’s to sell overseas because of overseas protection. • In USA Rip Curl faced high freight costs and US tarrifs on imports. • Exchanges rates vary continuously. • The $A appreciated after floating in 1983. • It became too costly to import
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This essay will case study the Music industry to illustrate the changes and development of the creative/cultural industry due to the effects of globalisation. Globalisation‚ according to the Collins Dictionary is “"process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally‚ largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications". “The cultural industries have moved closer to the centre of the economic action in many countries and across much of the world. Cultural industry
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Corporate Communications: An International Journal Emerald Article: Challenges in collaborative writing in the contemporary corporation Kerryn Colen‚ Roslyn Petelin Article information: To cite this document: Kerryn Colen‚ Roslyn Petelin‚ (2004)‚"Challenges in collaborative writing in the contemporary corporation"‚ Corporate Communications: An International Journal‚ Vol. 9 Iss: 2 pp. 136 - 145 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13563280410534339 Downloaded on: 29-09-2012
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The Impact of the Internet on Communication The internet has revolutionized all forms of communication since the beginning of its existence. The world has now become smaller ’ or more like a global village ’‚ so to speak. The internet was first used by the U.S military for communications purposes. The internet‚ from the communication point of view‚ has brought on new developments and techniques to keep in touch not only for individuals‚ but for businesses as well. An example of how the
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anti-globalisation. According to hyperglobalist‚ the current marketplace has more control over the world economy than by governments. The reason is that the fact of market mechanisms is functioning more rational than government. Hyperglobalist also believe that as a whole‚ the power of individual governments is less powerful and the globalisation has caused the ability of individual governments to manage the economy are being weaken. As for skeptical‚ these people view today globalisation process
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Corporate communication in contemporary organizations A) A tactical approach to communication is either short time oriented. The plan of the communication activities in a company is developed for about one year. A tactical plan includes publicity seeking aspects and was mainly applied in the past (1900) . The awareness of the importance of positioning organizations in the minds of stakeholders lead to the fact that organizations should start to get strategical structures. Nowadays a strategical
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. Lyon describes how globalisation has increased the movements of ideas and beliefs across national boundaries. Due to the central role played by postmodern society by the media and information technology‚ which saturate us with images and messages from around the globe. These ideas have become disembedded‚ for example the electronic church and televangelism disembed religion from the real‚ local churches and relocated it on the internet allowing believers to express their faith without physically
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Corporate communication strategy of Microsoft Contents Introduction and overview: 2 The communication strategy and its framework in the organization: 3 Communication framework: 4 External communication: 4 Internal communication: 6 Identity‚ Image‚ and Reputation: 6 Conclusion and recommendation: 7 References: 8 Introduction and overview: Microsoft Corporation was established by the two partners Bill Gates and Paul Allen in United States in 1975 with their head quarter in Redmond city
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