Reviews
This excellent and innovative book deserves a wide readership, especially among practitioners and students of IHRM. The editor and contributors are a talented team', 'This book breaks a new path within the field of international human resource management. It is written by an international team of leading specialists and researchers and offers deeper and more critical insights into IHRM topics than found in most mainstream textbooks.' The book is sober in its approach, written with a sense of urgency and includes and addresses important and topical issues that often are overlooked or neglected in conventional textbooks. The authors, impressively and in a highly readable manner, relate people management issues within global organisations to the wider complexities of international employment relations and the global political economy. The book does not shy away from addressing controversial issues of ethical and political-economic nature and is bound to raise important questions to be explored and discussed in the classroom. This is, indeed, a timely and much awaited text that takes the teaching of international human resource management to the next level'., 'This book breaks a new path within the field of international human resource management. It is written by an international team of leading specialists and researchers and offers deeper and more critical insights into IHRM topics than found in most mainstream textbooks. Written with a sense of urgency, the book includes and addresses important and topical issues that often are overlooked or neglected in conventional textbooks. The authors, impressively and in a highly readable manner, relate people management issues within global organisations to the wider complexities of international employment relations and the global political economy. The book does not shy away from addressing controversial issues of ethical and political-economic nature and is bound to raise important questions to be explored and discussed in the classroom. This is, indeed, a timely and much awaited text that takes the teaching of international human resource management to the next level', 'This excellent and innovative book deserves a wide readership, especially among practitioners and students of IHRM. The editor and contributors are a talented team', 'This book breaks a new path within the field of international human resource management. It is written by an international team of leading specialists and researchers and offers deeper and more critical insights into IHRM topics than found in most mainstream textbooks. Written with a sense of urgency, the book includes and addresses important and topical issues that often are overlooked or neglected in conventional textbooks. The authors, impressively and in a highly readable manner, relate people management issues within global organisations to the wider complexities of international employment relations and the global political economy. The book does not shy away from addressing controversial issues of ethical and political-economic nature and is bound to raise important questions to be explored and discussed in the classroom. This is, indeed, a timely and much awaited text that takes the teaching of international human resource management to the next level.'
Table of Content
Introduction: An employment relations perspective to IHRM - Miguel Martinez LucioPART ONE: FRAMEWORKS AND CONTEXTChapter 1: Globalization, organizations and employment: the dynamics of degradation? - Miguel Martinez LucioChapter 2: The Changing Nature of HRM, Organizational Change and Globalization - Phil Almond and Maria GonzalezChapter 3: National labour and employment relations systems and the impact of globalization - Miguel Martinez LucioPART TWO: THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENTChapter 4: Pay and Remuneration in Multinationals - Oscar Rodriguez RuizChapter 5: Equality, diversity and fairness as a new politics in multinational corporations - Fang Lee CookeChapter 6: Training and workplace skills in the context of globalization: new directions and discourses in skills - Miguel Martinez Lucio and Stephen MustchinChapter 7: Lean production and globalization: a revolutionary management agenda and the remaking of lavour intensification? - Paul StewartPART THREE: THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTChapter 8: Economic and social context: Are there varieties of capitalism? What difference does it make to employment relations? - Leo McCannChapter 9: The learning environment and the politics of globalization: consultants and business schools between standardization and rhetoric - Carlos J. Fernandez RodriguezChapter 10: Developing contexts of human resource management and industrial relations: globalization and employment relations strategies and narratives - Naresh Kumar and Miguel Martinez LucioChapter 11: Migration and human resource management - Nathan Lillie, Erka Caro, Lisa Berntsen and Ines WagnerChapter 12: Regulating work and employment internationally: the emergence of soft regulation - Robert MacKenzie and Miguel Martinez LucioChapter 13: Globalization, multinational corporations and trade unions: creating new forms of international trade unionism and new forms of representation within multinational corporations - Miguel Martinez Lucio and Jeremy WaddingtonChapter 14: Media, new union strategies and non-government organizations as global players: the struggle over representation and work - Steve WalkerConclusion: Contested spaces, globalization and the new politics of regulation - Miguel Martinez Lucio
