International Human Resource Management

Miguel Martínez Lucio is a Professor at the University of Manchester (Alliance Manchester Business School) and is involved in its Work & Equalities Institute.  He researches on questions of employment regulation, the role of the state, the changing nature of worker representation, and social inclusion and inequality at work. He is involved in various networks such as Critical Labour Studies and is an editor of New Technology, Work and Employment. Robert MacKenzie is Professor of Working Life Science at Karlstad Business School, Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also an editor of New Technology, Work and Employment. His research focusses on the regulation of the employment relationship in the context of restructuring. His work links the social and economic experiences of workers with broader patterns of socioeconomic restructuring and the role played by multiple stakeholders, contract form, technological change and occupational identity in mediating the experience of restructuring.

This is an impressive and important book that creates the benchmark for how everyone should learn about international human resource management (HRM). International HRM is not simply an organizational strategy, it’s a set of challenges rooted in questions about business and work in society. By embracing rather than assuming away the fundamental issues of interests, power, social relations, and economic systems, this volume richly but accessibly equips students with the basis for deep, critical engagement with all of the standard topics in international HRM, and with additional issues that should become standard.

• Section 1: The Dynamic Context of International Human Resource ManagementChapter 1: Globalization and Employment: Developments and Contradictions - Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzieChapter 2: Transnational Corporations, Human Resource Management and Globalization - Phil Almond and María C. González MenéndezChapter 3: Continuities and Change in National Employment Relations: the Role of Politics and Ideas - Miguel Martínez LucioSection 2: Working in a Globalised ContextChapter 4: Pay and Remuneration in Multinationals - Óscar Rodríguez-RuizChapter 5: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Multinational Corporations - Fang Lee CookeChapter 6: Here, There, and Everywhere: Work on International Assignments for Multinational Corporations - Jenny K Rodriguez and Miguel Martínez LucioChapter 7: Migration and Human Resource Management - Nathan Lillie, Erka Çaro, Lisa Berntsen and Ines WagnerChapter 8: Developing Economies: Globalization, Politics and Employment Relations - Naresh Kumar, Robert MacKenzie, and Miguel Martínez LucioChapter 9: Training in The Context of ‘Globalization’: Politics and Symbolism in Skill Formation - Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen MustchinChapter 10: The Learning Environment of Managerialism: The Role of Business Schools and Consultancies in a Global Market - Carlos Fernandez RodriguezSection 3: The Changing Ideologies and Practices of Global ProductionChapter 11: Socio-Economic Context and Varieties of Capitalism: What Difference Do They Make to Work? - Leo McCannChapter 12: Globalization and Lean Production in the Re-Making of Labour Intensification? - Paul StewartChapter 13: Restructuring, Policy and Practice: an International Comparison of Approaches - Christopher J. McLachlan, Robert MacKenzie, Alexis Rydell, Roland Ahlstrand, Jennifer Hobbins, Martin O’Brien and Betty FrinoChapter 14: Technology and the Organisation of Work - Kendra Briken and Robert MacKenzieChapter 15: New Technology and International Human Resource Management: Platforms and Platform Work - Debra HowcroftSection 4: Regulation and the Agenda for Decent WorkChapter 16: Regulating Work and Employment Internationally: A Complex Tapestry - Robert MacKenzie and Miguel Martínez LucioChapter 17: International Employee Representation, Organisation, Multinational Companies and International Human Resource Management - Stephen Mustchin and Nathaniel TettehChapter 18: Sustainability and International Human Resource Management - Josef Ringqvist, David Öborn Regin, Lena Lid-Falkman and Lars Ivarsson