THE ROLE OF ACCULTURIZATION FOR CROSS-CULTURAL HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

Year 2012, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 103 - 116, 01.12.2012

Vilmante Kumpikaite – Kestutis Duoba Kestutis Duoba

Abstract

Many of global researches demonstrated that innovative enterprises are in average twice more
profitable than other enterprises. Intensive global competition, higher customer expectations and greater focus on
quality have resulted in much greater requirements placed upon employees today than decades ago. The
challenge has been to internalize a new type of organizational behavior in order to operate successfully under
unfamiliar conditions. It is clear that in creation of innovative enterprise not only technology is important, but
also people, culture and communication. Under going globalization process it is important to draw attention that
it influences organization employees too, thus human resource development as well. In this paper authors
analyze factors impacting global human resource development, globalization’s impact on human resource
development process. Mostly authors emphasize influence of culture and speak about opportunities of
acculturization.

Keywords

Human Resource Training and Development, Culture, Acculturization

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