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Vance, C. M., Paik, Y., Managing a Global Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management (2nd ed.), M.E. Sharpe, London and New York 2011
A Capsule Summary of the Book and its Review
In their book 'Managing a Global Workforce--Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management' Charles M. Vance and Yongsun Paik give a comprehensive review of the underlying conditions, challenges, and practices of international human resource management nowadays.
The book integrates traditional micro human resource topics such as staffing, compensation, and performance appraisal and more macro human resource issues such as immigration and offshore outsourcing. Owing to the last worldwide financial and economic crisis the authors have adapted in this second edition of their book a more diversified approach for global HRM also referring to how to manage a global workforce during a global economic crisis. Therefore, the book provides broad insights into the management of global human resources taking into account the ever-changing business environment.
In the following sections the objective, structure, and content of the book will be discussed. The text will conclude with a review and critical discussion of the book.
Objective and Target Audience
The objective of the book is to 'provide a more complete and comprehensive picture of the challenges and opportunities that arise in managing an organization's total global workforce' (p. x). The authors state that many textbooks on global HRM do not pay attention to the fact that the human resource function is practiced by both general managers and HRM professionals and hence should be catered to the needs of both stakeholders alike.
Therefore, the book is targeted to 'students, instructors, and practitioners' (p.xi). As stated above, a matter of concern for the authors has been to not target the text book solely to HRM specialists but also to 'general managers and senior decision makers in charge of strategy formulation and implementation' (p. x). Due to its plain writing style as well as its illustrative cases the book is well suited for practitioners and students alike. It could perfectly be used for general management students which attend an international HRM course as an elective.
Structure and Contents
Following the table of contents a preface is given by the editors which is built to highlight the objectives of the book. The book is organized in eleven...
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