Redefining the field of European human resource management: A battle between national mindsets and forces of business transition?
✍ Scribed by Paul R. Sparrow; Jean-Marie Hiltrop
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 252 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
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✦ Synopsis
This article examines the conflict between cultural heritage and the current forces of global competition in Europe. The nature of management in European organizations is in a state of transition, influenced by competing forces of economic, social, and political integration or disintegration. A review of European research is used to question the idealistic picture of the Single European Market as a unifying force that will simplify international human resource management in multinationals. Taking a comparative rather than international human resource management perspective, the paper identifies the factors that have created national patterns of HRM within Europe. A dynamic and comparative 'force field framework' of HRM is developed in order to understand the managerial frames of reference that are currently guiding the field. ᭧ 1997