International Human Resource Management 5th Edition by Christopher Brewster, Elizabeth Houldsworth, Paul Sparrow, Guy Vernon ISBN 9781398603547 1398603546

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ISBN 10: 1398603546
ISBN 13: 9781398603547
Author: Christopher Brewster, Elizabeth Houldsworth, Paul Sparrow, Guy Vernon

International Human Resource Management 5th Edition Table of contents:

01 International HRM: an introduction

Introduction

The study of organisations that operate internationally

The changing context of globalisation

What is international human resource management?

Why study international human resource management?

Universalist versus contextual view

The value of the different paradigms

Convergence in HRM

Divergence in HRM

How is the field of international HRM evolving?

Structuring the field into three components – an outline of the book

What is new about this edition?

Part One Cross-national human resource management

02 Differing national contexts

Introduction: culture and institutions

Institutional approaches to comparative HRM

Comparative capitalisms

Business systems theory

Regulationalism

What do these theories mean for human resource management?

The USA and the rest of the world

Conclusion

03 The impact of national culture

Introduction

What is culture?

Cross-national comparisons

Hall’s research

Hofstede’s research

Schwartz’s research

The GLOBE project

Critical perspectives on work conducted at the national level: moving towards a deeper understanding

Intercultural interactions: the impact of culture on organisational behaviour and HRM

The multiple cultures perspective: multiculturalism and cultural identities

The notion of cultural intelligence

Part Two Comparative human resource management

04 Employee relations and collective voice

Introduction

What are unions? A cross-national comparative overview

Comparative structures of governance through joint regulation

Direct statutory regulation of the employment relationship

Unions, works councils and business performance

What influences comparative patterns of employee relations structures?

Best practice in employee relations

05 Non-standard employment: flexibility, precarity and work–life balance

Introduction

Employer-centred flexibility

Employee-centred flexibility: work–life balance

Factors underlying comparative variation in flexibility and work–life balance

International best practice in flexibility and work–life balance

06 Work organisation: direct communication and autonomy

Introduction

Taylorism and Fordism as a solution… and a problem

Direct communication: initiatives and rationales

Direct downward communication

Upward direct communication

Lateral communication

Reform beyond communication: employee discretion and autonomy

All teams against Taylorism?

Cross-national comparative employee autonomy

Emergent technologies and work organisation

Influences on comparative patterns of work organisation

One best way internationally in work organisation?

07 Extrinsic reward

Introduction

Reward and bases of pay

Attaching pay to post via job classification and evaluation: internal labour markets

The incidence of pay for performance

The significance to employees of pay for performance

Culture and reward systems

Is cultural explanation of reward enough?

The state, unions, employers’ associations and collective bargaining

International evidence on best practice in reward

Space for strategy

08 Strategic workforce planning, recruitment and selection

Introduction

Strategic workforce planning

Recruitment methods

Recruitment in its institutional context

The scope of labour legislation

Internal and external labour markets

Putting recruitment and selection into cultural context

Conclusions

09 Performance management

Introduction

Definitions and background to performance management

Comparative literature on performance management

Context and performance management

National differences: culture

National differences: institutions

Conclusions

10 Training and development

Introduction

Training and development in context

The role of the state national systems: varieties of capitalism, education and initial vocational education and training

Growth in the higher education market

Vocational education and training

What about the future of VET?

Considering cost-benefits of training

Summary

11 Global HRM departments

Introduction

Common ambitions for the HRM department?

Living up to new ambitions?

The strategic integration of HRM departments

The role of line management in HRM

Influences on cross-national comparative variations in the role of HRM departments

Global HRM departments in MNCs

Towards a global HRM delivery model

The impact of shared services and the effects of electronic HRM

The pressure to outsource some transactional activities

Part Three International human resource management

12 International HRM: theory and practice

Introduction

Different ways of thinking about economic globalisation

The dominant global firm or global factory thesis

The counter thesis: MNEs and the surrounding business ecology

The key theories used to understand global businesses

Different levels of analysis for thinking about globalisation

13 Managing international mobility

Introduction

Different forms of international work experience

Human resource management of assigned expatriation

Human resource management of self-initiated expatriation

HRM of short-term expatriates, international business travellers and international commuters

Human resource management of migrants and refugees

Managing the mix

The individual perspective: careers

Looking forward

14 International talent management

Introduction

Definition and philosophies

Talent management as a categorisation of people

Talent management as the presence of key HRM processes

Talent management as the identification of pivotal positions

Talent management as strategic pools of people

Talent management as global employer branding

Understanding the corporate roles involved in managing talent management

Managing the international labour force: from micro to macro talent management

15 Globalising HRM

Introduction

Balancing global integration and local responsiveness

Global networking and teamwork

Global performance management

Looking to the future

Index

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