International human resource management / [edited by] B. Sebastian Reiche, Anne-Wil Harzing, Helene Tenzer.

B. Sebastian Reiche University of Navarra, Spain

B. Sebastian Reiche is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on the forms, prerequisites and consequences of global work, international HRM, global leadership and knowledge transfer. He is Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and regularly blogs on topics related to expatriation and global work

Anne-Wil Harzing Middlesex University London, UK

Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London and visiting Professor of International Management at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Anne-Wil’s research interests include IHRM, HQ-subsidiary relationships, transfer of HRM practices, the role of language in international business, the international research process, and the quality and impact of academic research

Helene Tenzer University of Tubingen, Germany

Helene Tenzer is Associate Professor of International Business at Tübingen University in Germany. Her research focuses primarily on multinational teams, language diversity in international management, and organisational behaviour. She has published on these topics in outlets such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of World Business. In addition, she has founded a research network on language issues in management with currently over 100 international members.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Cultural, Comparative and Organizational Perspectives on IHRM
Laurence Romani
1. Culture and Cross-Cultural Management
Chris Brewster and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
2. Comparative Human Resource Management
Tony Edwards
3. The Transfer of Employment Practices across Borders in Multinational Companies
Chris Rowley, Jean Qi Wei and Malcolm Warner
4. Approaches to International Human Resource Management

Part II: International Assignments and Employment Practices
B. Sebastian Reiche and Anne-Wil Harzing
5: International Assignments
Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Phil Almond
6: Multinational Companies and the Host Country Environment
Robert Mackenzie and Miguel Martinez Lucio
7: MNCs, Regulation and the Changing Context of International Human Resource Management
Vladimir Pucik, Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans and Günter K. Stahl
8: Human Resource Management in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Part III: IHRM Policies and Practices
Ingmar Bjorkman, Paul Evans, Vladimir Pucik and Dana Minbaeva
9: Managing Knowledge in Multinational Firms
Ashly H. Pinnington, Yaw A. Debrah, Christopher J. Rees and Raphael O. Oseghale
10: Training and Development: Developing Global Leaders and Expatriates
Chris Rowley, Alan Nankervis and Malcom Warner
11: Global and Local Resourcing: The Cases of Japan, Taiwan, China and Vietnam
Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Mengying Yu
12: Global Performance Management
K. Galen Kroeck and Mary Ann Von Glinow
13: Total Rewards in the International Context
Fang Lee Cooke
14: Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management in the Global Context
Fang Lee Cooke
15: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability through Ethical HRM Practices

Used by over 25,000 students across 130 countries, this bestselling text, written by leading international experts in each topic, retains its critical edge, academic rigour and breadth of coverage in the new fifth edition.



The new edition reflects the contemporary debates and emerging issues in the field of International HRM, supplementing classic theories and models with recent research and international developments. Divided into three parts, the first section looks at the ways of thinking about IHRM theory and practice; the second section deals with multinational companies and how they manage their workforce around the world; the final section looks at both traditional and newer approaches to IHRM policies and practices.



A selection of up-to-date examples from across the globe are used to support the text, including Uber’s regulatory challenges across Europe, the gig economy, employment rights after Brexit, health insurance for part-timers in the US and EU, attracting and retaining ‘millennials’, the world’s happiest and unhappiest countries, and CSR in Hong Kong.

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