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Focusing on HRM developments in thirteen developing countries
across Asia, Africa and the Middle East, this book explores the
contextual functions of HR in these countries. In addition, it
analyzes the more general issues of HRM in cross-national settings
to give readers an understanding of HR that is both comparative and
contextual.
Covering the policies and practices of China, South Korea, Taiwan,
India, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria,
Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, each chapter follows a framework
that draws out all of the unique and diverse configurations of HRM.
This important text is an invaluable resource for all HRM
practitioners, students and scholars of HRM, international HRM and
international business.
The globalization of business is a relatively new process. Although its influence on work, employment, the labour process and the management process has become increasingly significant, little is known about these developments. In order to redress this imbalance, this book provides evidence of the nature and degree of significance that globalization holds for nation states, cultures, trade unions, employees and business management. Underlying the various contributions is a focus upon the varied and complex nature of internationalism in the business world.
Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this
text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are
transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of
managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions
and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia
and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and
Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually
happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and
individual employees as a result of globalization and the
intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.
Looking at the change in work brought about by globalization, this
text examines how global competitive pressures in Asia are
transforming workplace relations and impacting on strategies of
managers as well as the responses and behaviours of trade unions
and employees. The volume brings together research from Australia
and New Zealand, as well as from China, Japan, Malaysia and
Singapore, to illuminate our understanding of what is actually
happening to organizations, workforces, employee groupings and
individual employees as a result of globalization and the
intensification of global competition in Pacific Asia.
Contents: 1. Introduction: dynamics of human resource management in developing countries Pawan S Budhwar and Yaw A Debrah Part I. Human Resource Management in Asia 2. Human resource management in China Malcolm Warner 3. Human resource management in South Korea Won-Woo Park 4. Human resource management in Taiwan Tung-Chun Huang 5. Human resource management in India Pawan S Budhwar 6. Human resource management in Nepal Dev Raj Adikhari and Michael Muller 7. Human resource management in Pakistan Shaista E Khilji 8. Human resource management in Iran Monir Tayeb 9. Human resource management in Saudi Arabia Kamel Mellahi and Geoffrey T Wood Part II Human resource management in Africa 10. Human resource management in Algeria Mohamed Branine 11. Human resource management in Nigeria Franca Ovadje and Augustine K. Ankomah 12. Human resource management in Ghana Yaw A Debrah 13. Human resource management in Kenya Ken Kamoche 14. Human resource management in South Africa Geoffrey T Wood and Kamel Mellahi 15. Conclusion: international competitive pressures and the challenges for HRM in developing countries Yaw A Debrah and Pawan S Budhwar
Although international labour migration from and within Asia is not
a new phenomenon, it has received much media coverage since the
1997 Asian financial crisis. As businesses collapsed and
unemployment figures started to rise, many low-paid migrant workers
in labour-receiving countries in East Asia found their services no
longer needed. As low-paid legal and illegal migrant workers became
surplus to requirements they were threatened with
expulsion/repatriation at a time when jobs were scarce in many of
the labour-exporting countries.
On the part of the host countries, there was some concern as to
what to do with the redundant migrant workers who do the difficult,
dirty and dangerous jobs that the local workers shun. These
countries were in a dilemma as to whether to deport these migrant
workers or to allow them to stay on in anticipation of economic
recovery.
The ensuing problems brought home to these countries that although
their labour migration policies are built on the concept of
temporariness, in reality it might be difficult if not impossible
to avoid the use of migrant workers in the short term, if not the
long term.
The migration of workers to the high growth countries in Pacific
Asia in the 1980s was a new phenomenon in these countries. As such
the host governments did not have in place adequate housing, social
security and legal protection, but the tight controls following the
financial crisis have pushed these issues to the back burner.
This volume discusses the debates and controversies surrounding
this issue in Malaysia, Taiwan, SIngapore, South Korea, Japan and
China.
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