INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: DETERMINING THE STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING RATIONALE OF THE STUDY The internationalization of human resource management has increased the scope of traditional HRM. Today, HR practitioners not only manage people from their home country, but one that involve managing many diverse nationalities, with which the culture of staff and employees are already well-known or predicted. Companies start business within their country of origin and staff are hired from within that country. However, with the arrival of globalization and the shift from industrial to information technology, a new problem for HR practitioners emerged as employees become more diversified and hard to manage. Companies expand to other countries, or moreover participate in joint ventures or mergers and acquisitions. This move has many implications including the limited choice of hiring employ...