New Challenges for European Resource Management

CHRIS BREWSTER is Professor of European Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. He is also Director of the School's Centre for Strategic Trade Union Management and the Centre for European HRM which conduct worldwide comparative research programmes. - WOLFGANG MAYRHOFER is Professor at the Interdisciplinary Department of Management and Organisational Behaviour at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. - MICHAEL MORLEY lectures in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations in the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, College of Business at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Concept of Strategic European Human Resource Management; C.Brewster, W.Mayrhofer & M.Morley PART TWO: ASPECTS OF FLEXIBILITY Flexible Working Practices: The Challenges for Europe; R.Serlavos and M.Aparicio-Valverde Job Rotation: An Empirical Analysis of the Link between Flexibility and HRM Strategy; A.Friedrich, R.Kabst, M.Rodehuth and W.Weber A Comparative Analysis of the Link between Flexibility and HRM Strategy; L.Mayne, O.Tregaskis & C.Brewster Flexibility in Profile: An Empirical Analysis based on the Data of 394 Belgian Companies; D. Buyens, T.Vandenbossche and A.De Vos Flexibility in Norwegian and British Firms: Competitive Pressure and Institutional Embeddedness; P.N.Gooderham and O.Nordhaug Flexible Working Patterns: Towards Reconciliation of Family and Work; N.Papalexandris PART THREE: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Human Resource Management in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context; O.Tregaskis In Search of Management Development in Europe: from Self-Fulfilling Prophecies to Organisational Incompetence; H.H.Larsen PART FOUR: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Evaluating Change in European Industrial Relations: Research Evidence on Trends at Organisational Level; M.Morley, C.Brewster P.Gunnigle, & W.Mayrhofer Communication, Consultation and the HRM debate; M.Morley, C.Brewster P.Gunnigle, & W.Mayrhofer PART FIVE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC RIM Human Resource Policies in European Organisations: An Analysis of Country and Company-Specific Antecedents; W. Weber, R.Kabst and C.Gramley Human Resource Management in Bulgaria: Hot Problems during the Transition to Market Economy; E.Vatchkova Human Resource Management in Australia: Towards a New Metaphor; R.Kramer PART SIX: RESEARCH IN COMPARATIVE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Coordination of Research Networks: Market, Bureaucracy and Clan in the Cranfield Network on European Human Resource Management (Cranet-E); W.Mayrhofer Comparative Research in Human Resource Management: a Review and an Example; C.Brewster, O.Tregaskis, A.Hegewisch & L.Mayne