HR as a Competitive Factor : the change in companies due to today’s globalisation

Globalisation is a fast-growing trend. It seems to grow and spread fast and thus it now affects life in many aspects. It is thus normal to affect business as well. Companies are becoming more international than ever and it is common for many companies to have great diversity in the workforce, in every sense, but this paper is going to refer to cultural diversity. The purpose of this research is to examine the changes that have occurred in the Human Resource Department (HRD) due to globalisation, in the last decades, as well as analyse the importance of the specific department, in terms of how it affects the business and how HR managers deal with situations occurred while working with a diverse workforce. The theoretical part will provide a brief overview of HR in general and its objectives, discuss the role of the specific department, as well as globalisation. The next section will present the results and the analysis of the research conducted by the author of this paper. The results are based on secondary data gathered with qualitative research, interviews that the author conducted. The researched interviewed three people with managerial roles in the HR department of big companies and 5 people working in smaller start-ups. The findings of the research show that globalisation has affected many companies, having adiverse workforce is now more common than ever, thus there is more appreciation for the HR department than before. Of course, it is important to know how to deal with situation, but cultural diversity is not the only thing that make the HR department valuable