... foreign subsidiaries. The study of Human Resource Management in less developed countries has been receiving increasing attention in the past few decades. The rise of Japan as the second powerful economy of the world, and the emergence of the People's Republic of China as a powerful economy in Asia has attracted major attention from many researchers around the world. Every country has different business practices, standards, values etc. which reflects when companies are doing business abroad. These differences are evident when comparing business activities in developed countries to those in developing countries and when examining issues of worker health, safety and environmental issues (Amante, 1993; Cichon and Gillion, 1993). The real challenge is when companies form different countries have to tackle with locals of other nations especially the less developed countries because of different cultural influence. In the west people have a similar culture in many countries like USA, UK, Canada ...

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