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Human Resource Development in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context

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New Challenges for European Human Resource Management

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An organisation’s human resource development (HRD) system is a key mechanism for enabling the achievement of business goals through what has been argued to be one of the few remaining sources of competitive advantage (Pedler et al., 1988) — namely, people. It is also closely linked to national contextual factors. As such, the political and educational system play an important role in determining the types and levels of skills available in the labour market as well as in shaping national values and approaches to training and development issues. National context can therefore be considered a key predictor of organisational HRD practice. However, globalisation has introduced many changes, one of which has been the increasing presence of foreign multinationals (or MNEs) in host countries. Under such conditions, there is a need to compare the role of the host-national context to that of the parent in shaping MNE management practice.

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  1. Cranfield School of Management, UK

    Chris Brewster (Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management) (Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management)

  2. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria

    Wolfgang Mayrhofer (Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour) (Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour)

  3. Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, College of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland

    Michael Morley (Lecturer in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations) (Lecturer in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations)

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Tregaskis, O. (2000). Human Resource Development in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context. In: Brewster, C., Mayrhofer, W., Morley, M. (eds) New Challenges for European Human Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597952_8

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