Product Description: This unique and path-breaking Handbook explores the issue of comparative Human Resource Management (HRM) and challenges the notion that there can be a 'one best way' to manage HRM.The Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management provides a theoretical, practical and regional analysis of comparative HRM...read more

Product Description: In a global economy full of multinational firms, international human resource management (including expatriation, career management, and talent management) is a growing topic in the business and management literature and in universities...read more

Product Description: This book provides an overview on the state and nature of industrial relations in tropical and southern Africa, encompassing theoretical and comparative perspectives and country studies. Leading experts in the field provide insights into the underlying causes of both individual national traditions and practices, and continent-wide trends...read more

Product Description: High quality publication includes papers from authors at INSEAD and Ashridge College Originally published as Personnel Review (2005, Vol.34, No.1)

Product Description: The increasing number of cross-border alliances and mergers both within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world have made it imperative for students of management to have a thorough understanding of the European context for human resource management (HRM)...read more

Product Description: Establishing the agenda for global HR, this book looks through the eyes of HR professionals themselves. It gives a broad, coherent overview of the field of IHRM and a detailed, practical analysis of what is needed to be successful in this crucial area of modern management...read more

Product Description: Conducting business across national borders is nothing new; the Knights Templar were banking internationally as long ago as 1135. But modern globalization processes raise different challenges, and as the world becomes smaller and labour movements more common, an international understanding of human resource management is essential...read more

Product Description: This book breaks new ground in human resource management through focusing on specific themes written by a range of European experts drawing on a common survey. As such it is a major progression from previous texts that lack a coherent, cross-national database...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book identifies and discusses the key features of human resource management at the turn of the century from a northern European perspective (particularly referring to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

International HRM provides an important contribution to our understanding of the human resource management phenomenon, encompassing groundbreaking research, both empirical and conceptual, on international policy and practice in this rapidly developing area. Set within the context of Europe, this book brings together a collection of thought-provoking papers from European experts in the field, adopting a broad and highly up-to-date approach to topical issues in international HRM. Drawing on national experiences from a wide range of countries, contributors from Europe examine key issues and debates such as: the internationalization of the world economy, the increasing importance of IHRM, and its implications for individuals, organizations and researchers the divergence/convergence of IHRM policies and practices the balance between localization and standardization the dynamics of culture and gender in relation to IHRM This book constitutes a valuable resource for researchers, teachers and students in the field of international human resource management. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is a short introductory text providing a comprehensive account of how economics explains and analyses the functions and operations of firms in a modern industrial society. It discusses the concepts needed to understand the behaviour of firms...read more

Product Description: This volume presents data and analysis drawn from the results of the Price Waterhouse Cranfield survey of international human resource management. Employing organizations in all sectors of the economy from 14 major European states are included...read more

Product Description: This book features a comprehensive country-by-country description of human resource management infrastructure, including labor, education, workforce, pay, and conditions. Each chapter is written in the same format, successively examining the following areas:* Introductory overview, covering geography and culture, political system, recent history, and economic performance* Labor markets* Employment law* Recruitment* Pay and benefits* Trade unions* Current issues in human resource managemen...read more