This new textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the key issues facing multinational corporations (MNCs) in their management of human resources across diverse national boundaries. It attempts to answer the question, "Can there be a uniform set of best human resource management (HRM) practices applicable across a spectrum of nations irrespective of cultural and institutional individualities?" The book takes a broad definition of HRM and begins with a summary of key discussions and models in this area before setting them in the international context of the MNC. Adopting an integrated...

Covering a wide range of topics within the cross-cultural study of management, this book is written in a manner which makes the topic accessible and readily comprehensive to students. In the early scene setting chapters, general topics such as leadership style, organisational structure, decision-making process and major organizational activities are discussed in general terms. The significance of societal culture within which these take place are then pointed out. The second part of the book concentrates on the specific issue of human resource management and culture. The book is suited to MBA...