Introduction: a multilevel approach to international human resource management

Abstract

International human resource management (IHRM) is a set of management interventions and activities crafted for the effective practice of recruitment, retention, deployment, development and use of human resources in an international context. The study of IHRM requires attention to the relationships that shape the dynamics of inputs, processes and outputs of human resource management (HRM) among a set of actors at international, national, sectoral, organisational, team and individual levels. The multiplicity of key actors and complexity of relationships often complicate our understanding of how IHRM policy and practice develop. To overcome this complexity, we offer a multilevel and multidimensional approach to the study of IHRM.

Towards a multilevel approach to IHRM

In this book, we present a novel multilevel approach to the study of IHRM, incorporating in each chapter the macro-, meso- and micro-levels at which IHRM policy is shaped, negotiated, refined and practised.