Terrorism and Global Human Resource Management

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Terrorism and Global Human Resource Management

Introduction

Globalization is continuing to increase and companies expand their operations to different countries, which results in employing global workforce. Even though the outcome of this process has mostly been positive, some firms have been presented with occasional problems to face (Noe, Hollenback, Gerhart, & Wright, 2008).

After September 11th attack has happened, Americans have demanded to the Taliban government to turn in Bin Laden and his leaders, but the demand was refused. That's when the military actions began against that country. This has also resulted in host of issues developing in multinational companies (Noe, Hollenback, Gerhart, & Wright, 2008).

For example, companies doing business overseas had to manage their expatriate workforce which had a potential to become a hostile territory. Employees were in fear of their security, and some of them have requested to return back to their countries. Companies with global workforce must manage nationalistic boundaries. People in the United States may have viewed the terrorist attack as an act of war, and the Arab world may have felt the same way about military attacks. An executive have stated that is difficult to manage a workforce