The Routledge companion to international human resource management /

How can human resource professionals strategically support the interactions of employees with multinationals, national cultures, and international organizations? This handbook addresses these and other questions in chapters from 56 leading scholars in the international human resource management (IHRM) field. The book's 588 pages cover many classic IHRM topics, such as recruiting, selection, compensation, cross-cultural training, repatriation, mergers, and global cultures. Several less familiar topics include developing language-sensitive approaches to IHRM, understanding demographic issues, and combining IHRM with sociological concerns. A chapter on managing ethics and corporate social responsibility is representative of the rest of the handbook. IHRM programs can impact multinational organizations up and down the supply chain through awareness and action to help eradicate slave wages and forced overtime in countries such as China and Vietnam. The chapter cites top-tier journals and major books published to support more ethical treatment of local nationals. Research ideas are suggested, and a conclusion follows. A related research text--but with practitioner-oriented stories--is Betty Jane Punnett's International Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (CH June 13, 50-5694). Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners. --Gundars E. Kaupins, Boise State University