International Human Resource Management - The Transformation of Work in a Global Context

Written by an internationally renowned team of experts and underpinned by cutting-edge research, International Human Resource Management tackles a broad range of controversial and often marginalised issues associated with globalisation and its impact on multinational companies and employees.

Updated throughout with brand-new case studies, reflective questions and recommended reading, the second edition includes coverage of:

 International assignments and worker mobility
 The development of new technology and its impact on work
 International HRM and the platform economy
 The nature of organisational change
 The role of sustainability and social responsibility within the firm

This innovative and thought-provoking textbook is suitable for students of International Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. 

Lecturers can visit study.sagepub.com/martinezluciomackenzie to access PowerPoint slides and additional case study material.

Miguel Martínez Lucio is a Professor at the University of Manchester (Alliance Manchester Business School), UK.
Robert MacKenzie is Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Sweden.

List of contents

Section 1: The Dynamic Context of International Human Resource Management
Chapter 1: Globalization and Employment: Developments and Contradictions - Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie
Chapter 2: Transnational Corporations, Human Resource Management and Globalization - Phil Almond and María C. González Menéndez
Chapter 3: Continuities and Change in National Employment Relations: the Role of Politics and Ideas - Miguel Martínez Lucio
Section 2: Working in a Globalised Context
Chapter 4: Pay and Remuneration in Multinationals - Óscar Rodríguez-Ruiz
Chapter 5: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Multinational Corporations - Fang Lee Cooke
Chapter 6: Here, There, and Everywhere: Work on International Assignments for Multinational Corporations - Jenny K Rodriguez and Miguel Martínez Lucio
Chapter 7: Migration and Human Resource Management - Nathan Lillie, Erka Çaro, Lisa Berntsen and Ines Wagner
Chapter 8: Developing Economies: Globalization, Politics and Employment Relations - Naresh Kumar, Robert MacKenzie, and Miguel Martínez Lucio
Chapter 9: Training in The Context of 'Globalization': Politics and Symbolism in Skill Formation - Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen Mustchin
Chapter 10: The Learning Environment of Managerialism: The Role of Business Schools and Consultancies in a Global Market - Carlos Fernandez Rodriguez
Section 3: The Changing Ideologies and Practices of Global Production
Chapter 11: Socio-Economic Context and Varieties of Capitalism: What Difference Do They Make to Work? - Leo McCann
Chapter 12: Globalization and Lean Production in the Re-Making of Labour Intensification? - Paul Stewart
Chapter 13: Restructuring, Policy and Practice: an International Comparison of Approaches - Christopher J. McLachlan, Robert MacKenzie, Alexis Rydell, Roland Ahlstrand, Jennifer Hobbins, Martin O'Brien and Betty Frino
Chapter 14: Technology and the Organisation of Work - Kendra Briken and Robert MacKenzie
Chapter 15: New Technology and International Human Resource Management: Platforms and Platform Work - Debra Howcroft
Section 4: Regulation and the Agenda for Decent Work
Chapter 16: Regulating Work and Employment Internationally: A Complex Tapestry - Robert MacKenzie and Miguel Martínez Lucio
Chapter 17: International Employee Representation, Organisation, Multinational Companies and International Human Resource Management - Stephen Mustchin and Nathaniel Tetteh
Chapter 18: Sustainability and International Human Resource Management - Josef Ringqvist, David Öborn Regin, Lena Lid-Falkman and Lars Ivarsson

About the author

Miguel Martínez Lucio is a Professor at the University of Manchester (Alliance Manchester Business School) and is involved in its Work & Equalities Institute.  He researches on questions of employment regulation, the role of the state, the changing nature of worker representation, and social inclusion and inequality at work. He is involved in various networks such as Critical Labour Studies and is an editor of New Technology, Work and Employment.Robert MacKenzie is Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also an editor of New Technology, Work and Employment. His research focusses on the regulation of the employment relationship in the context of restructuring. His work links the social and economic experiences of workers with broader patterns of socioeconomic restructuring and the role played by multiple stakeholders, contract form, technological change and occupational identity in mediating the experience of restructuring.

Report

This is an impressive and important book that creates the benchmark for how everyone should learn about international human resource management (HRM). International HRM is not simply an organizational strategy, it s a set of challenges rooted in questions about business and work in society. By embracing rather than assuming away the fundamental issues of interests, power, social relations, and economic systems, this volume richly but accessibly equips students with the basis for deep, critical engagement with all of the standard topics in international HRM, and with additional issues that should become standard. John W. Budd

Product details

• Authors: Robert Mackenzie, Miguel Mackenzie Martinez Lucio, Miguel Martínez Lucio
• Assisted by: Miguel Martinez Lucio (Editor), Robert Mackenzie (Editor), Miguel Martínez Lucio (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781529734973
• ISBN: 978-1-5297-3497-3
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; International business, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel and human resources management, For higher / tertiary / university education, Textbook, coursework