CREOHR

Eileen Daspro Keywords:  Recruitment, Discrimination, Multinationals, Culture, Institutions The Study: This study examines whether U.S. multinational corporations maintain non-discriminatory recruitment practices when hiring in Mexico and analyzes how legal, cultural and institutional factors influence the way these organizations operate across borders. A total of 900 job advertisements from a binational job portal were analyzed, enabling comparisons among U.S. multinationals recruiting at...

Flora F. T. Chiang Thomas A. Birtch Keywords:  Performance appraisal, Culture, International management, Institutions, Human Resources The Study: This article empirically examines how cultural factors influence the main purposes and practices of performance appraisal in multinational organizations. Drawing on a sample of 1,749 employees from the banking sector across seven countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, the study investigates whether cultural dimensions — such as assertiveness,...

Marcela Peterson In many debates about people management, there is frequent discussion of meritocracy, performance, and the importance of rewarding those who deliver more. However, there is a structural aspect that rarely receives proper attention: the compatibility between the reward system and the culture in which it is applied. Implementing imported policies — especially variable compensation models anchored in the logic of “the more you perform, the more you earn”— can generate deep...