How can human resource professionals strategically support the interactions of employees with multinationals, national cultures, and international organizations? This handbook addresses these and other questions in chapters from 56 leading scholars in the international human resource management (IHRM) field. The book's 588 pages cover many classic IHRM topics, such as recruiting, selection, compensation, cross-cultural training, repatriation, mergers, and global cultures. Several less familiar topics include developing language-sensitive approaches to IHRM, understanding demographic issues, and combining IHRM with sociological concerns. A chapter on managing ethics and corporate social responsibility is representative of the rest of the handbook. IHRM programs can impact multinational organizations up and down the supply chain through awareness and action to help eradicate slave wages and forced overtime in countries such as China and Vietnam. The chapter cites top-tier journals and major books published to support more ethical treatment of local nationals. Research ideas are suggested, and a conclusion follows. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners.' G. E. Kaupins, Boise State University, in CHOICE July 2015‘These three distinguished professors in international human resource management have crafted an excellent set of chapters prepared by an outstanding collection of authors from every corner of the world! The editors and chapter authors do a terrific job in providing an excellent review of their specific topics and suggesting directions for further work. The result is a splendid and unique contribution to the field of international human resource management, one sure to be enjoyed and utilized by faculty, students and practitioners everywhere.’ - Randall S. Schuler, Distinguished Professor, Strategic International Human Resource Management, Rutgers University, USA,‘This is an excellent, comprehensive and thoughtful book with a strong cast of authors which will be valuable to both generalist and specialist readers.’ - Adrian Wilkinson, Professor of Employment Relations, Griffith University, Australia‘This is a much needed and timely book and a must-read for academics and students in the field. It not only assembles the authoritative voices in the text it also frames IHRM in a new and insightful way. In particular, the topics addressed in the final section indicate the major issues of current research and practice in IHRM which are important for its future development.’ – Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria‘If you are interested in international HRM, this edited volume has it all: macro foundations and broad perspectives on the field, as well as comprehensive treatments of a wide variety of key issues, from managing the people side of global organizations to managing global mobility and the competitive landscape. Looking back, looking forward, researchers and practitioners alike will find a wealth of valuable information to deepen and enrich their understanding of the field.’ - Wayne F. Cascio, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado, USABetter than many at hand in that it does provide a great deal of fascinating and detailed illustrations relating to foreign places, exotic localities and off-shore companies. In fact, there is probably more couleur locale here than in most competing texts. This facet makes the work an attractive conventional proposition for recommending on reading lists for international students on IHRM courses on MBA programmes, although it could also be equally well used on undergraduate ones, if less so for critical scholars in the work and organisation studies field. - Malcolm Warner, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
