This activity is important because these factors affect a company's HRM strategies, which is critical in an age of increasing globalization. The goal of this activity is to determine which factor most strongly influences human resource management in international markets. Read each action taken related to an HR policy, then select the appropriate factor to which it most closely pertains. The Japanese subsidiary reduced the emphasis on individual performance evaluations because performance was based on a collective rather than on an individual outcome. Changes in European Union employment laws prevented the French subsidiary from implementing its downsizing strategy as planned. The availability of low-cost, high-quality engineers caused the company to move its Asian resource and development center from Tokyo to Shanghai