International Human Resource Management

Peter Dowling is Emeritus Professor of International Management and Strategy at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Previous academic appointments include the University of Melbourne, Monash University, the University of Tasmania and Victoria University of Wellington. He has also held visiting appointments in the USA at Cornell University and Michigan State University and in Germany at the University of Paderborn and the University of Bayreuth. He has co-authored a number of books including Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization (Pacific Rim, 3rd ed.) and Human Resource Management in Australia (2nd ed.) and written or co-authored over 70 journal articles and book chapters. He was Founding Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources (1987–1996); one of three Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Human Resource Management (2012–2015); and serves on the editorial boards of Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources; International Studies of Management & Organization; Management International Review; Thunderbird International; and ZfP-German Journal of Human Resource Research. Peter is a Life Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute and a Life Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management. Former roles include past President of the Australia and New Zealand International Business Academy, past President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and past President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. Marion Festing is Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership at ESCP Business School’s Berlin campus and is the holder of Renault Chair of Intercultural Management. She founded ESCP's Talent Management Institute in 2014 and the Excellence Centre for Intercultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion in 2016 and was the former European Dean of Research at the business school and the Rector/Dean of the Berlin campus. She established ESCP's Female Leadership Program, has contributed to a MOOC on Intercultural Management and co-developed the award winning Serious Game Series 'Moving Tomorrow – A Cultural Journey' focusing on intercultural management, diversity and inclusion. Marion has co-authored and edited a number of books, including a monograph on Strategic International Human Resource Management (Strategisches Internationales Personalmanagement, 2nd edition) and a co-authored text on International Human Resource Management (Internationales Personalmanagement, 3rd edition). She has also written or co-authored over 100 book chapters and journal articles. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the German Journal of Human Resource Management and serves as the chairperson of the section ‘Human Resource Management’ (Kommission Personal) in the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB). She is also the German ambassador of the HR-Division of the Academy of Management and is involved in many academic organizations. Allen Engle is a Professor of Management in the College of Business and Foundation Professor at Eastern Kentucky University. He held the Harold Glenn Campbell Endowed Chair in International Business from 2016 to 2019. He was a national and regional professional member of World at Work (formerly the American Compensation Association) and of the Society for Human Resource Management, and a long-time member of the US Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business. While at Eastern, he has taught courses in management (undergraduate and graduate), a number of areas within human resource administration, organizational behavior, organizational theory and international management (undergraduate and graduate). For nine years he was Visiting Professor at ESCP Europe in Berlin and has also been Visiting Lecturer at the FHS Hochschule Für Technik, Wirtschaft und Soziale Arbeit, St Gallen in Switzerland and Visiting Professor of International Management at the University of Pécs in Hungary. He is a founding member of the Central and Eastern European International Research Team (CEEIRT). Allen has published in regional, national and international academic journals, presenting academic papers at conferences in the USA, Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and the UK. Allen has consulted for regional firms and presented professional seminars in the areas of performance-appraisal systems, executive team building, strategically responsive compensation systems, intercultural management issues and organizational change.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Cultural Context of IHRM
Chapter 3 The Organizational Context
Chapter 4 IHRM in Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions, International Alliances and SMEs
Chapter 5 Sourcing Human Resources for Global Markets – Staffing, Recruitment and Selection
Chapter 6 International Performance Management
Chapter 7 International Training, Development and Careers
Chapter 8 International Compensation
Chapter 9 International Industrial Relations and The Global Institutional Context
Chapter 10 IHRM Trends and Future Challenges
Case 1: Spanning the Globe
Case 2: Quality Compliance at the Hawthorn Arms
Case 3: Wolfgang’s Balancing Act: Rewarding Healthcare Executives in a Dispersed Yet Integrated Firm
Case 4: Strategic Forecasts and Staffing Formulation: Executive and Managerial Planning for Bosch-Kazakhstan
Case 5: Local and International? Managing Complex Employment Expectations
Case 6: Expatriate Compensation at Robert Bosch GmbH: Coping With Modern Mobility Challenges
Case 7: Balancing Values – An Indian Perspective on Corporate Values from Scandinavia
Case 8: Just Another Move to China? The Impact of International Assignments on Expatriate Families
Case 9: Developing local talent in local markets – the end of expatriation?