Description
Staffing is one of the biggest issues facing companies moving into the global market today. This book provides a multi-disciplinary, integrated and critical discussion-based analysis of current and emerging issues in global staffing.
It critically examines best practice and leading approaches, drawing on research from a range of disciplines including international strategy, management, HRM and organizational theory. The key theme of localization is also examined along with the complex associated implementation issues in a number of different regions.
This text takes a truly international approach, giving students of HRM and international business an in-depth understanding of the processes of global staffing.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Approaches to International Staffing 3. Strategic Motivations for International Transfers: Why do MNCs Use Expatriates? 4. International Recruitment and Selection 5. International Talent Management 6. Cross Cultural Training 7. Localisation: Societies, Organisations and Employees 8. Alternative Forms of International Assignments 9. Women in International Management 10. Repatriation: The Frequently Forgotten Phase of an International Assignment
