New Challenges for European Resource Management

This book breaks new ground in human resource management through focusing on specific themes written by a range of European experts drawing on a common survey. As such it is a major progression from previous texts that lack a coherent, cross-national database. Representing a truly collaborative European project, it includes themes such as flexibility, training and development, industrial relations, regional aspects and the problems of organising and undertaking comparative human resource management research.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Concept of Strategic European Human Resource Management; C.Brewster, W.Mayrhofer & M.Morley PART TWO: ASPECTS OF FLEXIBILITY Flexible Working Practices: The Challenges for Europe; R.Serlavos and M.Aparicio-Valverde Job Rotation: An Empirical Analysis of the Link between Flexibility and HRM Strategy; A.Friedrich, R.Kabst, M.Rodehuth and W.Weber A Comparative Analysis of the Link between Flexibility and HRM Strategy; L.Mayne, O.Tregaskis & C.Brewster Flexibility in Profile: An Empirical Analysis based on the Data of 394 Belgian Companies; D. Buyens, T.Vandenbossche and A.De Vos Flexibility in Norwegian and British Firms: Competitive Pressure and Institutional Embeddedness; P.N.Gooderham and O.Nordhaug Flexible Working Patterns: Towards Reconciliation of Family and Work; N.Papalexandris PART THREE: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Human Resource Management in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context; O.Tregaskis In Search of Management Development in Europe: from Self-Fulfilling Prophecies to Organisational Incompetence; H.H.Larsen PART FOUR: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Evaluating Change in European Industrial Relations: Research Evidence on Trends at Organisational Level; M.Morley, C.Brewster P.Gunnigle, & W.Mayrhofer Communication, Consultation and the HRM debate; M.Morley, C.Brewster P.Gunnigle, & W.Mayrhofer PART FIVE: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL EUROPE AND THE PACIFIC RIM Human Resource Policies in European Organisations: An Analysis of Country and Company-Specific Antecedents; W. Weber, R.Kabst and C.Gramley Human Resource Management in Bulgaria: Hot Problems during the Transition to Market Economy; E.Vatchkova Human Resource Management in Australia: Towards a New Metaphor; R.Kramer PART SIX: RESEARCH IN COMPARATIVE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Coordination of Research Networks: Market, Bureaucracy and Clan in the Cranfield Network on European Human Resource Management (Cranet-E); W.Mayrhofer Comparative Research in Human Resource Management: a Review and an Example; C.Brewster, O.Tregaskis, A.Hegewisch & L.Mayne

M. APARICIO-VALVERDE Lecturer at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain P. GUNNIGLE Professor at the College of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland U. HANEL Research assistant at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany J. KOUBEK Professor at the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic O. NORDHAUG Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen, Denmark N. PAPALEXANDRIS Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece R. SERLAVOS Professor and Associate Dean at ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain O. TREGASKIS Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, Bedford, UK E. VACHKOVA Professor at the International University of Sofia, Bulgaria R. VOLZ Assistant Lecturer, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany