People, 3^rd Ed.

International Enterprise

The Open University

Publisher: The Open University, 2001

ISBN: 0-7492-7683-5

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0. Introduction
• Background to the unit
• Aims and objectives
• Overview of the unit
1. Human Resource Management in International Enterprises
• 1.1 The Distinctive Nature of International Human Resource Management
• Stage Approaches to International Human Resource Management
• 1.2 People and Structure in a Global Context
• The Approaches of US, Japanese and European Multinationals to Organizational Structure
• Structure, Roles and International Human Resource Management
• International Employees and International Roles
• People, Structure and Change
• 1.3 International Dimensions of Organizational Behaviour
• 1.4 Conclusion
2. The Four Processes of the Human Resource Cycle
• Doing Competences
• Being Competences
• 2.1 Recruitment and Selection
• International Recruitment and Selection Practices
• 2.2 Developing International Employees
• International Career Development
• 2.3 Performance Management
• 2.4 Managing Diversity
• 2.5 Conclusion
3. Human Resource Management in Different Contexts
• 3.1 Human Resource Management in the National Context
• The Ideology of a System
• Human Resource Management at the Country Level
• The Impact of Human Resource Management on Performance
• Industrial Relations
• 3.2 The State and Human Resource Management
• Wage Levels
• Non-Wage Labour Costs
• Legal Regulations
• Education and Training
• 3.3 Regional Trade Groupings
• The Single European Market
• European Social Policy
• The Social Chapter
• 3.4 Conclusion