Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management

coordinating, and integrating its diverse but interdependent global network of operations. In closing, it goes without question ...

Cooke,W.N.( 2005 b). ‘Integrating Technology and Human Resources: The InXuence of Global Business Strategies on Workplace Strate ...

Marginson, P., and Sisson,K.( 2002 ). ‘European Dimensions to Collective Bargaining: New Symmetries within an Asymmetric Process ...

Tsogas,G.( 1999 ). ‘Labour Standards in International Trade Agreements.’ An Assessment of the Arguments.’International Journal o ...

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25.2 Understanding Culture and Cultural Diversity .............................................................................. ...

particularly the non-standard types, are increasingly being undertaken by employees outside the senior levels of management (Har ...

has investigated national cultural diversity. The GLOBE project has involved 160 researchers who have collected data over seven ...

25.4 The Convergence–Divergence Debate ......................................................................................... ...

A third view, sometimes referred to as ‘crossvergence,’ suggests that there is convergence in some areas of international busine ...

Cultural diversity may lead to reduced communication and to reinforcement of existing stereotypes. For transnationalWrms, proble ...

have implemented diversity initiatives, it is diYcult to measure the relationship between diversity initiatives and organization ...

Second, transnationalWrms face the challenge of eVectively managing employees from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. Whil ...

transnational leadership development, and implementation of support structures for transnational team members, to assist when co ...

balance the often conXicting needs of global eYciencies and coordination (integration) with responsiveness to factors such as po ...

the recruitment and selection practices utilized by aWrm. LargerWrms tend to use more standardized and formal processes. Similar ...

global integration of activities (Bartlett and Ghoshal 1992 ). It might be argued that the HR structure should be aligned with t ...

as short-term assignments and transnational project teams, have become more common (Harris and Brewster 2003 ). International wo ...

achieve organization and individual-level performance goals. Managers are in- creasingly realizing that for their organizations ...

approaches of dealing with cultural diversity have included eVorts to conform to ‘best-practice’ (usually Western management pra ...