Handbook of Human Resource Management in Emerging Markets

Business, human resource management, and other scholars from around the world contribute 21 chapters on the nature and pattern of human resource management systems of firms operating in emerging markets. They describe the development of emerging markets in the global context and different classifications of these markets; theories and approaches, including institutional approaches and understanding labor markets, cross-cultural issues, and strategies of multinational firms; international human resource management in emerging economies, with discussion of multinational firms, human resource management policy, and management practice, the role of human resource management in international mergers and acquisitions and international joint ventures, expatriate integration and performance, and negotiations; human resource management function and systems, including diversity and employment equity policy and practice, talent management, career development, employee engagement, compensation and reward systems, and performance management and high performance work systems; regional perspectives of China and India, Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Africa; and corporate social responsibility and convergence, divergence, and the diffusion of human resource management. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edited by Frank Horwitz, Professor of Global Human Resource Management – Emerging Markets, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, UK and Pawan S. Budhwar, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Aston Business School, UK