International human resource management : a critical text / [printed text] / Hugh Scullion, Editor ; Margaret Linehan, Editor . - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 . - xii, 332 p. : ill (b & w) ; 24 cm. - (Management, work and organisations) .
ISBN : 978-0-333-74139-9

Class number:	658.3
Abstract:	International Human Resource Management provides a critical assessment of contemporary international HRM. Written by leading international scholars, this text explores the challenges confronting organizations as they seek to develop effective resourcing strategies in a global environment. International Human Resource Management is an excellent companion text for upper level undergraduate, postgraduates and MBA students studying international or comparative HRM.
Contents note:	Part 1: Strategy and international HRM 1.International Human Resource Management: An Introduction; 2. Strategic HRM in multinational corporations; 3. Staffing policies and practices in European MNCs: strategic sophistication, culture-bound policies or ad hoc reactivity?; Part 2: Managing the international HR cycle 4.Training learning and development in multinational organizations; 5. Expatriate performance management in MNCs; 6. International Compensation: cost and benefits of international assignments; 7. International careers and repatriation; 8. Issues in the management of industrial relations in international firms Part 3: Contemporary issues in international HRM 9. Women in international management; 10. Managing human resources in cross-border alliances; 11. Western business expatriate in China: adjusting to the most foreign of all foreign places; 12. International HRM in developing countries Part 4: Emerging issues in international HRM 13. Shaping history: global leadership in the twenty-first century; 14. International HRM in the twenty-first century: crossing boundries, building connections