Dowling, P. J., Festing, M., Engle Sr., A. D., International Human Resource Management (6th Edition), Cengage Learning EMEA, 2013

Excerpt

The sixth edition of International Human Resource Management, which marks more than 20 years since its first edition in 1990, is a collaborative work of three senior researchers/professors from Australia, Germany, and the United States, respectively. They bring together unifying, diverse, changing, and complex perspectives about the process of balancing both the integration and differentiation of human resource activities in different countries. Specifically, they clearly demonstrate that among other variables, the “complexity involved in operating in different countries and employing different national categories of employees is a key variable differentiating domestic and international HRM, rather than any major difference between the HR activities performed” (p. 18). Thus, they acknowledge that “a consistent theme throughout this book [is] the way in which IHRM requires a broader perspective of what operating internationally involves, and a clear recognition of the range of issues pertaining to all categories of staff operating in different functional, task, and managerial capacities is essential” (p. 278). …