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HRM in the International Organizations

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HRM in Mission Driven Organizations

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This chapter focuses on Human Resource Management (HRM) in Inter-Organizational Organizations (IGOs). The unique context of IGOs has created typical corporate governance structures that affect the shaping of employment relationships in terms of staffing, training, compensation, benefits, development, and performance. There are many different forms of IGOs with each having a distinctive historical background, organizational culture and structure with systems. Bureaucracy and new public management heavily affect HRM in IGOs. Competition among organizations exists but on a different level than most private companies. IGOs, for example, compete for specific talent groups and for specific missions and possible financial resources to support the missions (e.g., fighting poverty). Less governmental financial support will put more pressure on IGOs, the employees who work in these organizations and therefore the people management: HRM.

This chapter has fewer citations and References because the subject of HRM in the IGOs has not been widely covered in the literature. However as the chapter notes many of the statements made here can be checked directly on the websites of the Organizations concerned.

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Abbreviations

ASHI:

After-employment safety and health care

CERN:

Conseil Européen pour la Research Nucléaire

DfID:

Department for International Development (UK)

EPO:

European Patents Office

EU:

European Union

ECMWF:

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting

Eurojust:

European Judicial Cooperation Unit

FAO:

Food and Agriculture Organization

IAEA:

International Atomic Energy Agency

ICC:

International Criminal Court

ICTR:

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

ICTY:

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

IFAD:

International Fund for Agricultural Development

IGO:

Intergovernmental Organization

IIDEA:

International Institute for democracy and Electoral Assistance

ILO:

International Labour Office

IMF:

International Monetary Fund

MNE:

Multinational Enterprise

NATO:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NGO:

Non-governmental Organization

OSCE:

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

SCSL:

Special Court for Sierra Leone

UN:

United Nations

UNESCO:

United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNICEF:

United Nations Children’s Fund

WFP:

World Food Programme

WHO:

World Health Organization

WTO:

World Trade Organization

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  1. International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, Reading, UK

    Chris Brewster

  2. Strategic Human Resource Management at Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Paul Boselie

  3. Human Resources Management, Geneva, Switzerland

    Claudia Purpura

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Brewster, C., Boselie, P., Purpura, C. (2018). HRM in the International Organizations. In: Brewster, C., Cerdin, JL. (eds) HRM in Mission Driven Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57583-4_4

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