International Human Resource Management 7th Edition by Peter Dowling Solution manual
International Human Resource
Management
7th edition
Instructor’s manual
Peter J. Dowling
La Trobe University, Australia
Marion Festing
ESCP Europe, Germany
Allen D. Engle, Sr.
Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Purpose and Topics covered in the Textbook 1
The major objective of this textbook is to provide an overview of international human resource
management; however, this is a complex term. The field of international HRM has been
characterized by three broad approaches. The first emphasizes cross-cultural management:
examining human behavior within organizations from an international perspective. The second
approach has developed from comparative industrial relations and HRM literature and seeks to
describe, compare, and analyze HRM systems in various countries. A third approach seeks to focus
on aspects of HRM in multinational firms. In this book, we take the third approach. Our objective
is to explore the implications that the process of internationalization has for HRM activities and
policies. In particular, we are interested in how HRM is practiced in multinational enterprises
(MNEs).
Typically, HRM refers to those activities undertaken by an organization to utilize its human
resources effectively. These activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Human resource planning
Staffing (recruitment, selection, placement)
Performance management
Training and development
Compensation (remuneration) and benefits
Industrial relations
This volume intends to discuss these topics in an international context by explicitly considering the
context of the multinational enterprise. Therefore, we also include a chapter on the cultural
context on IHRM and the organizational context, as well as cross-border mergers and acquisitions,
international alliances, and SMEs. An introduction and a conclusion complete the volume. The
structure of the book is indicated by the names of the ten chapters, which are as follows:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF IHRM
3. THE ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
4. IHRM IN CROSSBORDER MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS, INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCES, AND
SMEs
5. SOURCING HUMAN RESOURCES FOR GLOBAL MARKETS—STAFFING, RECRUITMENT, AND
SELECTION
6. INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
7. INTERNATIONAL TRAINING, DEVELOPMENT, AND CAREERS
8. INTERNATIONAL COMPENSATION
9. INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND THE GLOBAL INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
10. IHRM TRENDS AND FUTURE CHALLENGES
1 The authors would like to thank David St. George, whose work on an earlier version of the instructor’s
manual was partly adopted for the sixth edition, and Julia Spieß, who prepared most of the sixth edition’s
Part I in close cooperation with the authors.
The sixth edition of this book has been designed as a standalone text for an advanced
undergraduate or graduate level overview course on international HRM. Alternately, the text can
be used in support of a broader international management text to emphasize the critical nature
of people issues for multinational enterprises.
The chapter objectives, chapter summaries and additional readings features provide a focused set
of learning objectives and heuristic support for students and instructors alike. The in-chapter
cases and the in-depth case studies at the end of the text provide students with the opportunity
to apply and contextualize the definitions, theories, models and concepts in the text. The in-depth
case studies at the end of the text have been specifically designed to provide instructors with a
series of platforms to explore one or more of the functional areas of IHRM as well as investigate
some of the cross cultural and unique issues MNEs face in the deployment of people around the
world. In this sense, several of the cases have been written so they can be used to delineate the
topics presented in more than one chapter of the text.
The additional readings and extensively updated endnotes provide graduate instructors and
graduate students with an integrated set of references for further exploration and review. At the
same time the text does not assume the reader has an advanced understanding of HRM or
international management.
This instructor’s manual offers notes on the book chapters in Part I and notes on the cases in Part
II.
Part I: Chapter Notes
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Learning objectives:
Being able to define key terms in international human resource management
(IHRM) and consider several definitions of IHRM.
Knowing about the historically significant issue of expatriate assignment