1. Performance management around the globe : introduction and agenda / Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Angelo DeNisi -- 2. Employee performance management : policies and practices in multinational enterprises / Dennis R. Briscoe and Lisbeth M. Claus -- 3. Motivation and performance management /...

We systematically review theoretical and empirical research published in 38 journals over the last 52 years dealing with host-country nationals (HCNs) in multinational enterprises. We find that HCNs are treated in a relatively homogeneous manner, despite their important differences. Three themes...

This paper proposes a methodology for governing expatriate assignments in the context of corporate-level objectives.The approach taken is to envisage expatriate managerial assignments within the theoretical framework of agency theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm. The paper begins...

Two seemingly contradictory findings reported in the recent industrial relations literature are that union members are less satisfied with their jobs than are nonmembers and yet are less inclined to leave their jobs. Because those results are based on several national probability samples, the...

One criticism of final-offer arbitration has been that the theory underlying the technique is too complex to be understood by inexperienced negotiators. A laboratory experiment involving ninety undergraduate students playing the roles of labor and management negotiators was conducted to compare...

Two seemingly contradictory findings reported in the recent industrial relations literature are that union members are less satisfied with their jobs than are nonmembers and yet are less inclined to leave their jobs. Because those results are based on several national probability samples, the...