Human Resource Management: An International Comparison

✍ Scribed by Rüdiger Pieper (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization; 26
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Human Resource Management as a Strategie Factor
2. National Human Resource Management Concepts
3. No Universal Model of HRM
4. Some Remarks on Methodological Problems of Comparative Management Research
Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy
1. From Personnel Administration to Human Resource Management (HRM)
2. Historical Roots of HRM
3. Current HRM Concepts
4. The Link between HRM and Corporate Strategy
Part I. Human Resource Management in the Western World
Human Resource Management in the U.S. – Celebration of its Centenary
1. Historical Background
2. HRM in the 1990’s
3. The Practice of HRM in the 1990’s
4. Recent Issues in HRM
5. Conclusion
Human Resource Management in Italy
1. The Environment of Human Resource Management in Italy
2. Management Research and Theory
3. Human Resource Management in Practice
4. Prospects
Human Resource Management in France
1. Brief History
2. Objective Specific Aspects of the French Scene which Have an Impact on Human Resource Management
3. Subjective Characteristics of the French National Culture Having an Impact on Human Resource Management
4. Changes in the Field of Human Resource Management
5. Conclusions
Human Resource Management in the Federal Republic of Germany
1. Introduction
2. Historical Background
3. Applied Concepts
4. Contingency Factors of HRM
5. Summary and Outlook
Part II. Key Problems of Human Resource Management in Socialist Countries
Human Resource Management in Yugoslavia: Problems and Perspectives
1. Introduction
2. Postwar Developments
3. The Economic Reform and Changes in Management
4. Human Resource Management – From Social to Professional Activity
Human Resource Management in Czechoslovakia – Management Development as the Key Issue
1. Introduction
2. Tradition and Current Problems of Human Resource Management in Czechoslovak Companies
3. Management Development – Its Tradition and Current Practice in Czechoslovak Organizations
4. The Practice of Management Development in Czechoslovakia – Recapitulation and Prospects
5. The Major Changes Affecting the Future of Human Resources Development, Human Resource Management and Management Development in Czechoslovakia – Some Enigmas
Human Resource Management in the German Democratic Republic: Problems of Availability and the use of Manpower Potential in the Sphere of the High Qualification Spectrum in a Retrospective View Hansgünter Meyer
1. Introduction
2. Labor Availability
3. Qualification Structure
4. Some Current Problems
Part III. Human Resource Management in Asian Countries
Human Resource Management in China: Recent Trends
1. Introduction
2. The Development of Management Responsibility Systems
3. Changes in Personnel, Labor and Wage Systems
4. Vocational and Management Training
5. Trade Unions and Enterprise Law
6. Conclusion
Human Resource Management in Japan
1. Introduction
2. The Analytical Method of HRM in International Comparisons
3. General Characteristics of the Japanese Employment System – Japanese HRM before the Second World War
4. The Management Organization of Japanese Enterprise before and after the Second World War
5. Japanese HRM after the Second World War
6. The Problems of Japanese HRM at Present
Part IV. Human Resource Management and Multinational Companies
Strategic Human Resource Management: A Global Perspective
1. Introduction
2. A Model
3. The Consequences of Culture
4. International Human Resource Management
5. Implications: Future Trends
Human Resource Management in Multinational and Internationally Operating Companies
1. Some Basic Notions
2. Environmental Influences to be Considered in International Business
3. Task of Human Resource Management in Internationally Operating
4. Requirements of Professional and Personality-bases Qualifications
5. Re-Integration Problems
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