Recruitment and Selection. Gender and Ethnicity Discrimination

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck, language: English, abstract: In the following paper we define the meaning of recruiting and selection in an international context. By showing statistics of some international studies, we try to demonstrate the steady grow of international assignments. Additionally we will show in our study, that recruiting and selecting new individuals for international assignments is a complex task and the company has to focus on a variety of factors. Recruiting and Selection is one of the most important issues in human resource management. It means that the department has to find the most appropriate candidate for the vacancy. The employees, who work in a different country than their home country, are called "international managers" or "expatriates". By application, job interviews, trial work, and so on the staff department tries to select the right person for the job.

With the rapid development of the globalization, international managers gained more and more importance and the human resource management became more complex. To manage the recruiting and selection of expatriates, the international human resource management has to focus on different kind of things: the international taxation, the selection and training of international managers, dealing with different international governments all over the world, international relocation, and so on.