Global Staffing (Global Human Resource Management)

✍ Scribed by Hugh Scullion

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Edition: New edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Staffing is one of the biggest issues facing companies moving into the global market today. This book provides a multi-disciplinary, integrated and critical discussion-based analysis of current and emerging issues in global staffing. It critically examines best practice and leading approaches, drawing on research from a range of disciplines including international strategy, management, HRM and organizational theory. The key theme of localization is also examined along with the complex associated implementation issues in a number of different regions. This text takes a truly international approach, giving students of HRM and international business an in-depth understanding of the processes of global staffing.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
1 Introduction......Page 18
Part 1 Global staffing: Theory and practice......Page 32
2 Approaches to international staffing......Page 34
3 Strategic motivations for international transfers: Why do MNCs use expatriates......Page 56
Part 2 Global staffing: Composing the international staff......Page 74
4 International recruitment and selection......Page 76
5 International talent management......Page 104
6 Cross-cultural training......Page 134
7 Localisation: Societies, organisations and employees......Page 156
Part 3 Global staffing: Emerging themes......Page 174
8 Alternative forms of international assignments......Page 176
9 Women in international management......Page 195
10 Repatriation: The frequently forgotten phase of an international assignment......Page 213
Index......Page 228