Essentials of International Human Resource Management: Managing People Globally

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Sep 9, 2021 - Business & Economics - 352 pages
The revised and fully updated second edition of this textbook illustrates the multi-layered knowledge accumulated in the field of international human resource management, developing understanding of the strategic management of people in organizations in a global context. It integrates comparative approaches to human resource management, extending beyond traditional coverage of the field to provide a broader overview of contemporary cultural, institutional and organizational challenges.
 

Contents

1 Globalization and human resource management
1
2 Cultural context of IHRM
22
3 Institutional context of IHRM
41
4 Organizational context of IHRM
57
5 The Global HR department
74
6 Transfer of HRM practices across national boundaries
92
7 HRM in international joint ventures mergers and acquisitions and collaborative alliances
108
8 Global staffing
131
11 International mobility and global careers
198
12 International employment relations
222
13 Global corporate social responsibility
239
14 Postscript Global HR in a post COVID19 world
258
Importing diversity management to Finland
263
RetailCo in the Netherlands
269
Trimos global talent management transformation formula
273
Shortterm work at the Robert Bosch Group an exampleof the German industrial relations system
277

9 Global human resource development
151
10 Global performance management and compensation
175

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Mila Lazarova, Canada Research Chair of Global Workforce Management, Associate Professor of International Business and Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, David C. Thomas, Professor of International Business, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria and Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Elaine Farndale, Professor of Human Resource Management and Director, Center for International Human Resource Studies, School of Labor and Employment Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, US

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