International Human Resource Management

A must read for everyone interested in the various facets of International HRM. Fully up-to-date and highly accessible with a unique combination of comprehensiveness and detailed insight.

This fifth edition of International Human Resource Management, authored by a team of top scholars in the field, provides an excellent reference point for those who are interested in learning about managing the workforce in the international context. The volume offers great insights into theories, practices, and a comprehensive range of issues related to people management.

This book impressively connects International Human Resources Management (IHRM) to different internal and external contexts. It shows us that a rapidly changing World and its most significant events are shaping a variety of activities within the IHRM, such as managing international mobility, international talent management and reflections on the role of both globalization and deglobalization in shaping the future HRM. This book can be a useful tool for both managers trying to solve problems that hinder their decision-making and students, for whom, according to the latest approach to acquiring knowledge and its use in practice, critical thinking and situational and pragmatic approach are necessary. Taking all these aspects into account I am convinced that this book will be one of the most important that everyone consciously dealing with IHRM will reach for.

The fifth edition by Brewster, Houldsworth, Sparrow and Vernon is organised into three parts of the institutional and cultural context, aspects of comparative HRM, and IHRM. It is not only up to date with the latest research evidence, but also analyses post-pandemic scenarios, technological advancement, and geo-political dynamics. An understanding of such context-specific developments is critical for managers to develop relevant international HRM practices and policies for their firms to successfully operate globally. This volume should be of great use for both academics and practitioners.

This book should be in the library collection of anyone interested in IHRM. It covers all the most important issues that determine the shape of IHRM both from the outside and from the inside in a very accessible way. There are very precious considerations regarding economic, political, legal, social, cultural, geographical and technological factors. The most important events that have recently taken place in the world are taken into account as well, such as the Great Recession of 2007-2009, Brexit, the covid-19 pandemic, Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and the development of industry 4.0. It is shown how all these factors and events shape various policies, functions, activities or systems of IHRM and to what extent they should be taken into account when making managerial decisions in this regard. I rate the book very highly in terms of content. It is not only a valuable collection of very up-to-date knowledge in the field of IHRM, from the perspective of management practitioners, but also has special didactic and pedagogical values. The authors took care of its attractiveness from the perspective of students acquiring knowledge on academic courses and equipped it with numerous tools for assimilating new knowledge and strengthening it in practice.