About the Book
Used by over 25,000 students across 130 countries, this bestselling text, written by leading international experts in each topic, retains its critical edge, academic rigour and breadth of coverage in the new fifth edition.
The new edition reflects the contemporary debates and emerging issues in the field of IHRM, supplementing classic theories and models with recent research and international developments. Divided into three parts, the first section looks at the ways of thinking about IHRM theory and practice; the second section deals with multinational companies and how they manage their workforce around the world; the final section looks at both traditional and newer approaches to IHRM policies and practices.
A selection of up-to-date examples from across the globe are used to support the text, including Uber’s regulatory challenges across Europe, the gig economy, employment rights after Brexit, health insurance for part-timers in the US and EU, attracting and retaining ‘millennials’, the world’s happiest and unhappiest countries, and CSR in Hong Kong.
The book is complemented by free online resources for lecturers and students, including PowerPoint slides, additional case studies, SAGE video clips with critical thinking questions, free SAGE journal articles for every chapter, annotated useful weblinks, and suggested answers to self-assessment questions.
Suitable reading for upper-undergraduate and masters level students on IHRM modules.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Cultural, Comparative and Organizational Perspectives on IHRM
1. Culture and Cross-Cultural Management - Laurence Romani
2. Comparative Human Resource Management - Chris Brewster and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
3. The Transfer of Employment Practices across Borders in Multinational Companies - Tony Edwards
4. Approaches to International Human Resource Management - Chris Rowley, Jean Qi Wei and Malcolm Warner
Part II: International Assignments and Employment Practices
5: International Assignments - B. Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing
6: Multinational Companies and the Host Country Environment - Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Phil Almond
7: MNCs, Regulation and the Changing Context of International Human Resource Management - Robert Mackenzie and Miguel Martinez Lucio
8: Human Resource Management in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions - Vladimir Pucik, Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans and Günter K. Stahl
Part III: IHRM Policies and Practices
9: Managing Knowledge in Multinational Firms - Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans, Vladimir Pucik and Dana Minbaeva
10: Training and Development: Developing Global Leaders and Expatriates - Ashly H. Pinnington, Yaw A. Debrah, Christopher J. Rees and Raphael O. Oseghale
11: Global and Local Resourcing: The Cases of Japan, Taiwan, China and Vietnam - Chris Rowley, Alan Nankervis and Malcom Warner
12: Global Performance Management - Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Mengying Yu
13: Total Rewards in the International Context - K. Galen Kroeck and Mary Ann Von Glinow
14: Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management in the Global Context - Fang Lee Cooke
15: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability through Ethical HRM Practices - Fang Lee Cooke
About the Author :
B. Sebastian Reiche is Professor of People Management at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on the forms, prerequisites and consequences of global work, international HRM, global leadership and knowledge transfer, and has appeared in Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Personnel Psychology, among others. He is Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal, co-editor of Advances in Global Leadership, and regularly blogs on topics related to global work (http://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus). Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London, a Visiting Professor at Tilburg University, and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. Her research interests include international HRM, expatriate management, HQ–subsidiary relationships, the role of language in international business, and the international research process. She has published more than 120 journal articles and books and book chapters on these topics and has been listed among the top 1% most cited academics in Economics & Business worldwide since 2007. She blogs on all things academia at https://harzing.com/blog/.
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Helene Tenzer is Assistant Professor of International Management at LMU Munich School of Management. Her research focuses primarily on language diversity in international management, multinational teams, and organizational behaviour. She has published on these topics in outlets such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Leadership Quarterly and Journal of World Business. In addition, she has founded a research network on language issues in management with currently over 100 international members.
Review :
In the 5th edition of International Human Resource Management, Sebastian Reiche, Anne-Wil Harzing, and Helene Tenzer continue to set the standard for texts in the area. The volume is comprehensive in its coverage, bringing together an authoritative international author team. A key strength of the volume is balancing intellectual rigour and accessibility in the content and the authors achieve this in each of the chapters. This is a must read far anyone wishing to understand what is currently happening in international HRM.
Having taught international human resource management for many years, I have always struggled to find an appropriate text that is grounded in research and that is comprehensive in covering the complexities of managing people across borders. With this collection of chapters, each of which is written by experts in their respective fields, my quest is over! I especially like the emphasis given to the greater cultural, institutional, and organizational contexts in which MNCs operate as well as the challenges of managing expatriates and host country employees around the world.
