Browse Hierarchy BMGT6027: BMGT6027 Contemporary Issues in International Human Resource Management

This module enables students to review and develop their disciplinary knowledge and research skills within a contemporary global context. Students will enhance their critical skills by reading and reflecting on contemporary issues in human resource management through research papers, contemporary cases and other selected topical sources. Students will engage with research being undertaken by staff in the Oxford Brookes Business School. The module adopts a broad definition of `international human resource management', to include issues relating to the impact of diversity management, national culture, the debates in the comparative HRM literature and examples of differences in the way HRM is conducted around the world. It also examines how international organisations deal with the extra complexity that operating internationally brings to HRM. Current issues will also be examined including the convergence/divergence debate, the foreign vs. local staffing debate, women expatriates, joint venture issues and issues surrounding cross-cultural management.