Emerging themes in international management of human resources

• Other Authors: Benson, Philip G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
• Series: Research in organizational analysis.
• Subjects: International business enterprises > Personnel management.; Employment in foreign countries.; Business & Economics > International > General.; International business.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806616282
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-084-9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 263 pages) : illustrations

Emerging Themes in International Management of Human Resources is the third volume in the Research in Organizational Analysis series. This volume investigates important human resource management (HRM) issues within an international context. The papers in this volume provide insight into several HRM...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The emerging view: Managing human resources in the international firm of the twenty-first century / Philip G. Benson
• Part I. The context of international human resource management
• Chapter 1. Enhancing absorptive capacity and management knowledge transfer through host country workforce training: Lessons from sacagawea and squanto / Charles M. Vance
• Chapter 2. Telecommunications deregulation and privatization in the Czech Republic and australia: A comparative study of česky telecom and telstra / Peter Ross
• Chapter 3. Traversing the societal-organizational cultural divide: Social capital and organizational diversity in the United States and the European Union / Judith Y. Weisinger
• Part II. Staffing in the international organization
• Chapter 4. Individual value orientations and the selection of suitable cross-border managers / Alan Fish, Ramudu Bhanugopan, and Julie Cogin
• Chapter 5. Factors influencing employee claiming behavior in relation to the termination of employment: Evidence from Europe / Colette Darcy and Thomas N. Garavan
• Part III. Women's issues in the international firm
• Chapter 6. Women's intentions and flexible work arrangements: Evidence from the far south-eastern corner of the eu / Christiana Ierodiakonou and Eleni Stavrou
• Chapter 7. Gender egalitarian values, institutional equalization, and role differences among female and male hr managers / Astrid Reichel, Julia Brandl, and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
• Part IV. Crossing cultures: Issues in expatriation and repatriation
• Chapter 8. Governance of psychological contracts via reciprocity: The case of international expatriation management / Maike Andresen and Markus Göbel
• Chapter 9. Do repatriate support practices influence repatriate experience, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, and perceptions of career success? / Jane L. Menzies and Ann Lawrence
• Chapter 10. Repatriation as a dynamic sense-making process / Gráinne Kelly and Michael J. Morley
• About the authors.