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Session Type: Showcase Symposium
Program Session: 1452 | Submission: 16364 | Sponsor(s): (HR, IM, OB)
Scheduled: Monday, Aug 10 2015 4:45PM - 6:15PM at The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver in Waddington Room
 
HRM Implementation in the International Arena: A Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Perspective
HRM Implementation in Europe
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Organizer: Anna Christina Bos-Nehles, U. of Twente
Organizer: Tanya Bondarouk, U. of Twente
Discussant: David E Guest, King's College London
HRM practices have fared well across national borders due to globalization. The field of international HRM has learnt us a great deal by exploring different effects on HRM implementation in different countries. Our symposium is rooted in two main streams of the literature, HRM effectiveness and HRM challenges of Multi-National Corporations (MNCs) in different regions of the world. Overall, it is acknowledged that HRM philosophy and practices are context specific and shaped by specific organizational dynamics as well as socio-cultural, economic and political contexts. Therefore, one must expect HRM policies and practices to differ in content and emphasis across national borders. Along with a long list of HRM-related issues, the literature does not pay attention yet enough to the involvement of line managers in HRM implementation in international context. In case of MNCs structures, HRM philosophies and policies are usually designed at the headquarters and communicated through towards subsidiaries, but it may be line subsidiaries-based managers who, in the end, take final responsibilities to implement centrally designed HRM systems. In case of indigenous organizations, the main logic remains: line managers stay responsible for the execution of HR practices. In this proposal we focus on the implementation of HRM in the international context. Such a landscape is characterized by several features, some typical of developing nations and some unique to the region. We want to learn and inspire future studies about differences and similarities in the scope and degree of line managers involvement in the HRM implementations. This symposium brings together four studies. The papers confront empirical work in different countries with theories and concepts from Western knowledge and focus on the similarities and differences between contexts and their implications for Human Resource Management practices.
Search Terms: HRM implementation | Multi-level | Multi-actor
How to implement a high performance model: A multi-level case study
Presenter: Stephen Keating, Three Ireland (Hutchison) Limited
Presenter: Na Fu, National U. of Ireland Maynooth
Presenter: Marian Crowley-Henry, National U. of Ireland Maynooth
Filling the ‘Discursive Void’ in the construction of talent management policy knowledge
Presenter: Carole Tansley, Nottingham Trent U.
Presenter: Susanne Tietze, Keele U.
Presenter: Emil Helienek, Nottingham Trent U.
Explaining effective HRM implementation: A middle versus first-line management perspective
Presenter: Sophie Op de Beeck, KU Leuven
Presenter: Jan Wynen, KU Leuven
Presenter: Annie Hondeghem, KU Leuven
The joint effect of high-involvement work practices and empowering leadership behavior
Presenter: Kerstin Alfes, Tilburg U.
Presenter: Katie Bailey, U. of Sussex
Presenter: Edel Conway, Dublin City U.
Presenter: Kathy Monks, Dublin City U.
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