Danger and Risk as Challenges for HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments

Questions related to managing people in hostile environments have become more central on the agenda of business leaders and HR professionals in multinational corporations (MNCs). This is due to developments such as the increase of terrorism or the political instability in many regions. In consequence, research on the role of HR in hostile environments has increased, though it can still be considered in its early stages.

Danger and Risk as Challenges for HRM: Managing People in Hostile Environments adds to this emerging field of research by investigating the management of people in hostile environments from conceptual as well as empirical perspectives. It delivers an essential and comprehensive overview and gives deep insight into this highly relevant topic from leading authors in the field.

This book will be of great value to scholars and researchers interested in the role of human resource management (HRM) in hostile environments, people management in companies in conflict-affected areas and to those interested in new grounds in HR Research.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Benjamin Bader is Deputy Head of Leadership, Work and Organisation Subject Group, and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK, and Associate Editor of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Benjamin’s research focuses on international human resource management, particularly expatriation in dynamic environments, global leadership, the impact of digitalisation on managing people and topics related to the future of work.

Tassilo Schuster is Senior Lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research interests are in the areas of international management, international human resource management and digitalisation of international companies. He is particularly interested in business strategies focusing on expatriate management, psychological contracts and the future of work.

Michael Dickmann is the Full Professor of International Human Resource Management at Cranfield University, School of Management, UK, and the Senior Editor-in-Chief of The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Michael’s research focuses on human resource strategies, structures and processes of multinational organisations, cross-cultural management, international mobility and global careers. He is the lead author/editor of several books on international HRM and global careers.