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Informationen zum Autor Professor Paul Sparrow is the Director of the Centre for Performance-led HR and Professor of International Human Resource Management at Lancaster University Management School. He has worked as a Research Fellow at Aston University, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick University, Consultant/Principal Consultant at PA Consulting Group, Reader/Professor at Sheffield University and whilst at Manchester Business School he took up the Ford Chair from 2002-2004 and was Director, Executive Education 2002-2005. He has consulted with major multinationals, public sector organisations and inter-governmental agencies. His research interests include cross-cultural and international HRM, HR strategy, cognition at work and changes in the employment relationship. He has published over 100 journal articles and chapters and several books and in 2008 was voted amongst the Top 25 Most Influential HR Thinkers by Human Resources Magazine. Klappentext From the mid-1980s to the turn of the 1990s the international HR field was considered to be in its infancy. There continues to be both an evolution of territory covered by the field - a series of successively evolving cultural, geographical and institutional challenges faced by the multinational corporation (MNC) - as well as more critical questioning whether this has created an expanded or a fragmented field.This book brings together the latest research on important "issues-driven" concerns that the field of IHRM now has to face, absorb, interpret then reanalyse through international lenses. This volume gives attention to those aspects of MNC behaviour - choices about location, how they organize local subsidiaries, choices made about technology, capital and labour, and choices made about investments and strategies - that are subject to institutional influences. It also gives voice to a number of contemporary issues - reverse knowledge flows, skill supply strategies, employer branding, e-enablement, outsourcing, global networks - that now need to be accommodated within the field.* Broadens the IHRM field to cover comparative and institutional perspectives* Provides a multi-level analysis of globalization phenomena at the individual, organization, and macro level* Focuses on the current problems and issues driving the attention of IHRM Directors Zusammenfassung Brings together research on 'issues-driven' concerns that the field of international human resource management has to face, absorb, interpret then reanalyze through international lenses. This book discusses contemporary issues such as reverse knowledge flows, skill supply strategies, employer branding, e-enablement, and outsourcing. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. About the Editor. PART I METHOD AND RESEARCH LENSES. 1 Integrating People, Process, and Context Issues in the Field of IHRM ( PAUL SPARROW ). 2 Multilevel Issues in IHRM: Mean Differences, Explained Variance, and Moderated Relationships ( PATRICK WRIGHT AND KARINA VAN DE VOORDE ). 3 Comparative Analysis of HR ( WOLFGANG MAYRHOFER AND ASTRID REICHEL ). 4 Contextual Influences on Cultural Research: Shifting Assumptions for New Workplace Realities ( SONJA SACKMANN ). PART II MANAGING KEY STAFF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUAL PROCESSES IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. 5 Beyond International Experience: The Strategic Role of Cultural Intelligence for Executive Selection in IHRM ( KOK-YEE NG, LINN VAN DYNE, AND SOON ANG ). 6 Mutual Adjustment of Expatriates and International Team Members: The Role of Political and Social Skill ( MICHAEL HARVEY AND MILORAD NOVICEVIC ). 7 Beyond Expatriation: Different Forms of International Employment ( VESA SUUTARI AND CHRIS BREWSTER ). 8 Inpatriates as Agents of Cross-Unit Knowledge Flows in Multinational Corporations ( SEBASTIA...
