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Strategic International Human Resource Management By Stephen J. Perkins and Susan M. Shortland Kogan Page Ltd., 2006 List price: $55,258 pages ISBN:0-7494-4357-X
Managers, executives or human resource practitioners who are part of their organization's international efforts-whether they're in a home country preparing to send employees abroad or responsible for international employees in a host country-are the audience for this second-edition textbook on managing people in today's global work environment.
Authors Stephen J. Perkins and Susan M. Shortland frame their work in terms of "choices and consequences," examining the relationships between the strategic choices organizations make as they work internationally.
Initial chapters look at broad international HR management (HRM) theory, discussing globalization and its historic development, including its effect on organizing employment.
Most of Strategic International Human...