ME Sharpe Professor

Revised and updated to incorporate new research insights and findings, Managing a Global Workforce provides balanced and contemporary coverage of human resource management in the international marketplace. Directed at future general managers and international executives rather than HR specialists, it is designed to help students as well as professionals recognize the critical human resource issues underlying the cultural and economic challenges they face.

The book's approach is truly global in nature, not just focused on expatriates from the home office. The authors also recognize contemporary trends in the global business arena, including the growing use of contingent workers, strategic alliances, and the need to have an active influence on the workers in these new organizational relationships.

The text's practical, real-world emphasis is enhanced by student-friendly tools, including an opening case scenario in each chapter to attract interest and emphasize topic importance. For this edition new end-of-chapter short cases provide a basis for stimulating class discussions; new topics, ideas, and illustrations featuring current issues and challenges such as the global economic challenge have been added; and updated Internet resource references are provided for each chapter.

An exceptionally comprehensive online Instructor's Manual that includes test questions, detailed teaching notes, and additional cases and video resources is available to adopters.

“The complexity of international human resource management is daunting. Challenges inherent in managing a global workforce undermine effective strategy implementation for far too many MNCs. Vance and Paik provide tools, frameworks and perspectives to guide and demystify the analysis, understanding and practice of international human resource management. This textbook is destined to become a classic.” — Mary B. Teagarden, Editor, Thunderbird International Business Review, Thunderbird School of Global Management (*)

T“The business world is big and complicated and students want more realism learning about it. This book delivers just that. It is difficult to imagine a more practical text, yet Managing a Global Workforce is very accessible and based on solid, up-to-date scientific evidence.” — Jan Selmer, Aarhus University

T“This textbook recognizes the entire global workforce that international firms and leaders manage in today's increasingly complex and volatile world. It provides an in-depth understanding of the ways these firms can successfully integrate and draw on the talent available across the globe, and is an extremely valuable contribution to students and practitioners of global management.” — Sully Taylor, Portland State University