Impacts of globalization on International Human Resource Management

The following discussion agenda is on the impact of globalization on International Human Resource Management (IHRM):

1. The study domains of IHRM and strategic IHRM
• the 3 competing dynamics in IHRM analysis
• Factors that give rise to distinctive national and local solutions to HRM issues
• The strategic pressures that make the national models receptive to change and development
• The firm-level processes through which change and development in HRM practice will be delivered.
2. The main challenges faced by global HR functions
3. Different perspectives on globalization as related to IHRM
• globalization of industries and globalization of markets
• Major themes
• "nothing new" perspective
• IMF positive approach
• negative or neo-colonial perspective
• transformative perspective
• universalist vs contextual paradigms
• cultural vs institutional explanations
• The global convergence thesis vs regional convergence
• Continued divergence vs stasis

Reference
Sparrow, P. Brewster, C. and Harris, H. (2004) "Chapter 1: Understanding the impact of globalization on the role of IHR professionals", and "Chapter 2: Globalization and HRM" in Globalizing Human Resource Management, Routledge.