Contents
List of contributors
1. Comparative Human Resource Management: An Introduction / Chris Brewster and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
PART I. THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
2. Institutional Approaches to Comparative HRM / Geoffrey Wood, Alexandros Psychogios, Leslie T. Szamosi and David G. Collings
3. Cultural Perspectives on Comparative HRM / B. Sebastian Reiche, Yih-teen Lee and Javier Quintanilla
4. Critical Approaches to Comparative HRM / Tuomo Peltonen and Eero Vaara
5. Empirical Research Issues in Comparative HRM / Ingo Weller and Barry Gerhart
PART II. HRM TASKS AND THEMES
6. Recruitment and Selection in Context / Irene Nikandrou and Leda Panayotopoulou
7. HRM Activities: Pay and Rewards / Marion Festing, Allen D. Engle Sr., Peter J. Dowling and Ihar Sahakiants
8. Human Resource Development: National Embeddedness / Olga Tregaskis and Noreen Heraty
9. Comparing National Approaches to Management Development / Christopher Mabey and Matias Ramirez
10. Comparative Employment Relations: Definitional, Disciplinary and Development Issues / Werner Nienh?ser and Chris Warhurst
11. Organising HRM: The HRM Department and Line Management Roles in a Comparative Perspective / Julia Brandl, Ina Ehnert and Anna Bos-Nehles
12. Comparative Analysis of Employment Contracts / Paul Sparrow
13. Careers: A Country-Comparative View / Mila Lazarova, Fran?oise Dany and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
14. Flexible Work Practices / Maria C. Gonzalez and Phil Almond
15. Financial Participation / Andrew Pendleton and Erik Poutsma
16. Performance Management / Paul Boselie, Elaine Farndale and Jaap Paauwe
17. International Perspectives on Diversity and Equal Treatment Policies and Practices / Alain Klarsfeld, Gwendolyn M. Combs, Lourdes Susaeta and Mar?a Beliz?n
18. A Cross-National Perspective on the Intersection between Information Technology and HRM / Huub J.M. Ru?l and Tanya Bondarouk
PART III. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
19. HRM Practice and Scholarship: A North American Perspective / Susan E. Jackson, Randall S. Schuler, David Lepak and Ibraiz Tarique
20. Latin American HRM Models / Anabella Davila and Marta M. Elvira
21. The Practice of HRM in Africa in Comparative Perspective / Christine Bischoff and Geoffrey Wood
22. Human Resource Management in the Middle East / Pawan Budhwar and Kamel Mellahi
23. European Human Resource Management: A Contextualised Stakeholder Perspective / Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Paul Sparrow and Chris Brewster
24. The Transition States of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union / Michael J. Morley, Dana Minbaeva and Snejina Michailova
25. Human Resource Management in the Indian Subcontinent / Pawan Budhwar and Arup Varma
26. HRM and Asian Socialist Economies in Transition: China, Vietnam and North Korea / Ngan Collins, Ying Zhu and Malcolm Warner
27. Japan, Korea and Taiwan: Issues and Trends in Human Resource Management / Philippe Debroux, Wes Harry, Shigeaki Hayashi, Hwang Heh Jason, Keith Jackson and Toru Kiyomiya
28. Models of Human Resource Management in Australia and New Zealand / Peter Boxall and Steve Frenkel
Index