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Provides an understanding of how HRM policies and practices differ across countries and how the development of management practice may be affected by different institutional and cultural contexts. Containing contributions from a range of well-respected HRM scholars across the world, this collection is based upon data from a unique research project.
List of contents
List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction; E.Parry, E.Stavrou & M.Lazarova 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'. A Longitudinal Analysis of HRM Work and the Profile of Senior HR Managers; M.Lazarova, W.Mayrhofer & C.Brewster New Captain but a Sinking Ship? The Influence of HR Director's Gender on the Status of the HR Department - a Longitudinal Study; A.Reichel, J.Brandl & W.Mayrhofer CSR and Responsible HRM in the CEE and Nordic Countries; R.Kazlauskaite, P.E.M.Ligthart, I.Buciuniene & S.Vanhala HRM Policies and Firm Performance: The Role of the Synergy of Policies; E.Poutsma, P.E.M.Ligthart & B.Dietz Human Resource Management in the Central and Eastern European Region; R.Kazlauskaite, I.Buciuniene, J.Poor, Z.Karoliny, R.Alas, A.Kohont & A.Szlavicz Converging and Diverging Trends in HRM between Nordic Countries and Estonia; R.Alas & S.Vanhala HRM in Scandinavia - Embedded in the Scandinavian Model?; T.Lindeberg, B.Manson & H.H.Larsen Divergent Norwegian and North American HRM Regimes: Implications for Norwegian MNEs; P.Gooderham, B.Grogaard & O.Nordhaug The Development of Employee Financial Participation in Europe; E.Poutsma, P.Ligthart, A.Pendleton & C.Brewster Information Technology Systems in the Human Resource Management Area; H.Peretz The Use of Flexible Working Across National Contexts and its Relationship to Organizational Performance; M.Koch
About the author
RUTH ALAS Head of Management Department at Estonian Business School, Estonia
JULIA BRANDL Professor for Human Resource Management and Work at Innsbruck University School of Management, Austria
CHRIS BREWSTER Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK
ILONA BUCIUNIENE Vice Dean of PhD Studies, Chairman of Doctoral Committee, and a member of Senate at ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania
BART DIETZ Assistant Professor in the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, Netherlands
PAUL GOODERHAM Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
BIRGITTE GROGAARD Assistant Professor in Haskayne School of Economics at the University of Calgary, Canada
HENRIK HOLT LARSEN Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
ZSUZSA KAROLINY Associate Professor at University of Pécs, Hungary
R?TA KAZLAUSKAIT? Professor at ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania
MICHAEL KOCH
ANDREJ KOHONT Researcher and Teacher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
PAUL E.M. LIGTHART Assistant Professor of Strategy in the Department of Business Administration of Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
TINA LINDEBERG Consultant at the IPF Institute of Uppsala University, Sweden
BO MÅNSON Senior Consultant at the IPF Institute of Uppsala University, Sweden
WOLFGANG MAYRHOFER Professor of business administration and holds a chair for management and organisational behaviour at WU Vienna, Austria
ODD NORDHAUG Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
ANDREW PENDLETON Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of York Management School, UK
HILLA PERETZ Senior faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, ORT Braude College, Israel
JÓZSEF POÓR Professor of Management in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Szent István University, Hungary
ERIK POUTSMA Associate Professor of Labour Relations in the Department of Business Administration of Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
ASTRID REICHEL Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at WU Vienna, Austria
ÁGNES SZLÁVICZ Assistant Professor at Faculty of Economics Subotica, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
SINIKKA VANHALA Professor of Management at Aalto University School of Economics, Finland
Summary
Provides an understanding of how HRM policies and practices differ across countries and how the development of management practice may be affected by different institutional and cultural contexts. Containing contributions from a range of well-respected HRM scholars across the world, this collection is based upon data from a unique research project.
