The Global Challenge: International Human Resource Management

by EVANS

• ISBN13: 9780073530376
• ISBN10: 0073530379
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-02
• Publisher: MCGRAW

Summary

Through its focus on human resource management and organization, The Global Challenge: International Human Resource Management, provides a broad guide on how to manage the process of internationalization, with a particular focus on the transnational firm. In this edition, authors Evans, Pucik and Bjorkman discuss the "people implications" of traditional strategies for internationalization and how such strategies get executed through human resource management (HRM). They discuss such important topics as: how to manage expatriates from the parent country; how to go about adapting management practices to circumstances abroad; how to localize management; how to recognize and ultimately avoid obstacles in joint ventures; how to expand across borders through acquisitions; how to respond to the contradictory pressures of the transnational firm, where HRM has a critical role to play in enabling managers to resolve these paradoxes in innovative ways; how global competition is changing the nature of management and organization, even for firms operating in domestic markets. The book draws on practical examples from companies that have experienced the real challenges of international HRM. The authors carefully balance these real business applications with a wide scope of academic research. The issues presented in the first edition of this book have been updated throughout with new information from research and practice.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Challenges of International Human Resource Management

Chapter 2: Human Resource Management in the International Firm: The Framework

Chapter 3: Becoming Locally Responsive

Chapter 4: Achieving Global Integration

Chapter 5: Structuring Global Coordination

Chapter 6: Building Social Architecture

Chapter 7: Managing Global Talent: Recruitment, Selection, and Retention

Chapter 8: Developing Global Leaders

Chapter 9: Global Performance Management

Chapter 10: Managing Knowledge and Innovation Across Borders

Chapter 11: Facilitating Change in Multinational Organizations

Chapter 12: Managing Alliances and Joint Ventures

Chapter 13: Forging Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Chapter 14: Transforming the Global Human Resource Role