International Human Resource Management 2nd Ed.

The Transformation of Work in a Global Context

Miguel Martinez Lucio, Robert MacKenzie

Publisher: Sage, 2022, 387 pages

ISBN: 978-1-5297-3497-3

Keywords: Human Resources

Last modified: July 31, 2026, 12:01 p.m.

Synopsis

Written by an internationally renowned team of experts and underpinned by cutting-edge research, International Human Resource Management tackles a broad range of controversial and often marginalised issues associated with globalisation and its impact on multinational companies and employees.

Updated throughout with brand-new case studies, reflective questions and recommended readings, the second edition includes coverage of:

  • International Assignments and worker mobility
  • The development of new technology and its impact on work
  • International HRM and the platform economy
  • The nature of organisational change
  • The role of sustainability and social responsibility within the firm

Table of Contents

    • Introduction: an employment relations perspective on IHRM and the transformation of work in a global perspective
      Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie
  • Section 1: The dynamic context of International Human Resource Management
    1. Gloablization and employment: development and contradictions
      Miguel Martínez Lucio and Robert MacKenzie
    2. Transnational corporations, human resource management and globalization
      Phil Almond and Maria C. Gonzáles Menéndez
    3. Continuities and change in national employment relations: the role of politics and ideas
      Miguel Martínez Lucio
  • Section 2: Working in a globalized context
    1. Pay and renumeration in multinationals
      Óscar Rodriguez-Ruiz
    2. Equality, diversity and inclusion in multinational corporations
      Fang Lee Cooke
    3. Here, there and everywhere: work on international assignments for multinational corporations
      Jenny K. Rodriguez and Miguel Martínez Lucio
    4. Migration and human resource management
      Nathan Lillie, Erka Çaro, Lisa Berntsen and Ines Wagner
    5. Developing economies: globalization, politics and employment relations
      Naresh Kumar, Robert MacKenzie and Miguel Martínez Lucio
    6. Training in the context of 'globalization': politics and symbolism in skill formation
      Miguel Martínez Lucio and Stephen Mustchin
    7. The learning environment of managerialism: the role of business schools and consultancies in a global market
      Carlos J. Fernández Rodríguez
  • Section 3: The changing ideologies and practices of global production
    1. Socioeconomic context and varieties of capitalism: what differences do they make to work?
      Leo McCann
    2. Globalization and lean production in the remaking of labour intensification?
      Paul Stewart
    3. Restructuring policy and practice: an international comparison of approaches
      Christopher J. McLachlan, Robert MacKenzie, Alexis Rydell, Roland Ahlstrand, Jennifer Hobbins, Martin O'Brien and Betty Frino
    4. Technology and the organization of work
      Kendra Briken and Robert MacKenzie
    5. New Technology and International Human Resource Management: platforms and platform work
      Debra Howcroft
  • Section 4: Regulation and the agenda for decent work
    1. Regulating work and employment internationally: a complex tapestry
      Robert MacKenzie and Miguel Martínez Lucio
    2. International employee representation, organization, multinational companies and International Human Resource Management
      Stephen Mustchin and Nathaniel Tetteh
    3. Sustainability and International Human Resource Management
      Josef Ringqvist, David Öborn Regin, Lena Lid-Falkman and Lars Ivarsson