Global Trends in Human Resource Management draws on twenty years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the changing nature of HR practice, and show how it can meet the demands of an evolving global marketplace.

1. The meaning and value of comparative human resource management: an introduction / Elaine Farndale, Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Chris Brewster -- Part I Theoretical, conceptual and empirical issues in comparative HRM -- 2. Comparative institutional analysis and comparative HRM / Geoffrey Wood,...

Section 1. Asia and Oceania -- Section 2. Africa and the Middle East -- Section 3. The Americas -- Section 4. Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union -- Section 5. Western Europe -- Section 6. Emerging markets.