Building Flexibility into Multi-National Human Resource Strategy: A Study of Four South African Multi-National Enterprises

<p> <em> Globalizing International Human Resource Management </em> sets out to cover as a wide range of regional and national cultures, as well as perspectives, as possible, in order to explore how these might shape both theory and practice in this field.</p><p> In attempting this, it focuses on key concepts within it, such as <ul> <li> human resources (HR) </li> <li> HR management (HRM), </li> <li> international HRM (IHRM), </li> <li> strategic HRM (SHRM), </li> <li> human capital and talent as they relate to foreign direct investment (FDI) </li> </ul></p><p> These are discussed in a range of spatial and organizational settings, including multinational corporations (MNC) and international joint ventures (IJV). The book covers a wide range of countries and cultures in North America, Europe and and Asia. Next, we have a set of nationally-based cases that represent exemplifications of many of the conceptual points made by contributors, who include scholars based in a wide variety of countries around the world, in universities and business schools.</p><p> This book was previously published as a special issue of <em> The International Journal of Human Resource Management. </em></p>