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International Human Resource Management

Edwards & Rees, 3^rd edition

This engaging textbook offers a readable introduction to International Human Resource Management. It explores the international dimensions of managing human resources, with a focus on comparative HRM and multinational organisations. It tackles the issues raised by cross-national differences in HRM styles and explores key themes, including:

• The meaning of globalization and the extent to which it is a novel phenomenon
• Challenges to national traditions and changes in national systems
• Debates and controversy around key issues in International HRM.

Ideal for undergraduates taking International HRM courses, those taking Masters programmes in HRM, and MBA students. It may also be relevant to comparative industrial relations courses that feature multinational companies.

Fully revised and updated in this new third edition, this textbook features:

• Clear, cohesive themes that run throughout the book and show the big picture.
• Broad depth of coverage of multinational companies, reflecting current hot topics.
• Real life case studies throughout, showing how the theory applies in practice.
• Contributions by experts in the field, actively edited by the lead authors to ensure that the book is clear and consistent for the reader.

About the authors

Tony Edwards is Professor of Comparative Management at Kings College London. Chris Rees is Professor of Employment Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London.

International Human Resource Management

• International Human Resource Management


• International Human Resource Management Globalization, National Systems and Multinational Companies


• Brief contents


• Contents


• Contributors


• Figures


• Logos


• Tables


• Text


• Introduction


• Part 1 The Context for International HRM


• Chapter 1 Globalization, national systems and multinational companies


• Key aims


• Introduction


• The nature of contemporary globalization


• Debating globalization


• Globalization and MNCs


• MNCs, the state and ?national effects?


• The culturalist perspective


• The institutionalist perspective


• Conclusion


• Review questions


• Further reading


• References


• Chapter 2 National employment systems and international HRM


• Key aims


• Introduction


• Types and numbers of national system


• Two varieties of capitalism?


• Geographical groupings of countries


• National business systems and HRM in MNCs


• The negotiation of policies: collaboration and contestation in the MNC


• The MNC as an international employment system


• Management, ownership and country-of-origin effects


• Conclusion


• Review questions


• Further reading


• References


• Chapter 3 The European Union: a case of advanced regional integration


• Key aims


• Introduction


• Regional integration agreements


• Evolution of the European Union and its employment policy


• The European social model


• Bases of EU employment policy


• Three key ?moments? in the development of EU employment policy


• Qualified majority voting


• Social dialogue