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After decades of accelerating globalisation, mobilisation, and the advent of modern technology, HR professionals should have stopped debating why globalisation should be part of modern HR development. Instead, the question should be why so many HR professionals have managed to miss the question of international HR development in a globalised world like our own, and how to respond to that situation.
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Müller, HM., Thomas, A., Müller, JP. (2013). Globalising How? The Route Towards International HR Development. In: Meifert, M. (eds) Strategic Human Resource Development. Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31473-5_18
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