First blog of the semester...

So, I told myself that I'd keep blogging over the break, even if I wasn't going to have a class that required it this semester, but that didn't quite go as planned...hahaha.  I'm actually very interested in the idea of blogging and these online chats that we have for the classes that I'm taking this semester.  I'm actually working on two websites and hope to run a blog for at least one of them, so this is definitely great practice.  It's amazing to me the way that we're able to use these mediums now compared to the way that we had to communicate when I first started going to college.  I've got two on-line classes this semester and when I first went to college was when people just started using AOL Instant Messenger...that's amazing to me.

After reading the chapter that was assigned this week, and after the discussion that we had in our on-line chat for our business ethics course tonight, I did a bunch of research on the issues of Human Resource Management that come up as the result of the continuing globalization of business.  I've worked in various sales environments, and it always amazed me how certain country's customs could affect the interactions that I'd had with clients.  When it comes to managing people in many different countries all at once I can't even imagine all of the issues that come up as a result of a continuously expanding diversified staff.

I found quite a few articles on the subject, but this one was one of the more in-depth and recent ones that I could find.  The article summarizes the interaction of globalization and business performance with a focus on the challenges from the perspectives of human resources. The author, Dr. Arshad Husain, presents a framework for Strategic Human Resource Management in order to prepare organizations for the challenges of globalization. 

I'm very excited for this semester, and interested to see what everyone else out there is blogging about.  After reading the first three chapters of the book I can honestly say that I'm more interested in HR than I thought, and I'm glad that this is one of the electives that I chose to take during my time in this program.  I hope that you all find this article interesting, and look forward to seeing what you were all able to find during your search.