For the last three decades, the liberalization of the exchanges and the development of the Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) led the globalization of the economy. The flows of the FDI with the amount of 648 billion dollars in 2004 are sixteen times today than at its being in 1950 . The growth of the FDI came along with significant changes in the strategic and organizational plans. In the strategic subject of the globalization, in the 80s and especially in the 90s, it was the transition toward multidomestic strategies (internationalization of companies) based on independent national products markets. That is why there was movements of relocation and outsourcing of less value creating functions. Furthermore, since the end of the 90s, the increasing of a new kind of actors (institutional investors), increased the weight of financial markets in the lead of the strategies of multinational firms, inciting them to privilege logics of short term return. This financialization of the strategies has consequences on the human resources management.
The human resources management means the whole of medium operated to guarantee the company the adequacy between its resources and its need of staff, on the quantitative and qualitative plan.
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