International Human Resource Management, fifth edition, is a new edition of the market-leading text. Peter Dowling is joined by two new authors, Marion Festing and Allen Engle, who make this edition even more international than its predecessors. Changes include increasing coverage of small and medium enterprises, new material on managing diversity and cross-cultural workforces, new material on off-shoring, particularly to India or China, and a new chapter on sustaining global growth and linking the international HR function more firmly to a company's strategic growth plans.



This highly successful and groundbreaking text discusses the theory and practices of human resource in MNCs and SMEs. It also contains a wealth of case study material and class discussion material.



Contents :

1. Introduction : the enduring context of HRM

2. The organizational context

3. The context of cross-border alliances and SMEs

4. Staffing international operations for sustained global growth

5. Recruiting and selecting staff for international assignments

6. International training and development

7. International compensation

8. Re-entry and career issues

9. IHRM in the host country context

10. International industrial relations

11. Performance management

12. IHRM trends : complexity, challenges and choices in the future.