The Global Challenge: International Human Resource Management - Softcover

Evans, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071114173 ISBN 13: 9780071114172

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2010

Synopsis

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; and, 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.

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About the Author:

Paul Evans is the Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore. British by nationality but raised in Africa, he has a PhD in Management and Organizational Psychology from MIT, an MBA from INSEAD, a Danish business diploma, and he is a graduate in law from Cambridge University. He has led INSEAD's activities in the field of international human resource management for many years, directing many of their executive programs in this domain. Vladimir Pucik is Professor of International Human Resources and Strategy at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland. Born in Prague, Czech Republic, where, after trained as a software engineer, he studied international economics, law, and political science. He continued his studies in the US, where he received MIA in international affairs (specializing in East Asia) and Ph.D. in business administration from Columbia University in New York. Before joining IMD, Professor Pucik held faculty appointments at the Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan and at the Industrial a and Labor Relations School, Cornell University. Ingmar Bjorkman is Professor of Management and Organization at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Raised in Norway, he receiving his Ph.D from the Hanken School of Economics after having done parts of his doctoral studies at Stanford University. He has held visiting positions at Hong Kong University, ESSEC (Paris), INSEAD (Fontainebleau), and SCANCOR (Stanford University) and has also taught at a number of other business schools in Europe and Asia. His research interests focus on international human resource management, knowledge creation and transfer in multinational corporations, and integration of international mergers & acquisitions.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0071114173
• ISBN 13: 9780071114172
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 672