Solved: what are some of the major HRM challenges facing CISCO as they open offices in Shanghai?

CISCO is targeting china for its future expansion.shngahi is one of the most desired locations in which the established business would grow through foreign direct investment. Challenges faced by the company include:

• Hiring practices focus more on personality traits rather than on actual experience and job skills.
• He training is of longer durations
• Expatriates need to be flexible, open minded and sensitive to diversity they will find.
• Cultural differences may lead to barriers to the implementation and acceptance of foreign organisational practices.
• Language difference silo needs to be considered while selecting candidates for supervisory roles.
• The interviews are conducted in shanghai which may not apply to other regions of china so it is impossible to find homogenous characteristics that would apply to the entire country.
• Cultural fusion needs to be created by changing the core values.