Managing a Global Workforce: Edition 4
About this ebook
This fourth edition includes significant updates to reflect recent global developments affecting the management of global HRM, including the following:
• The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on new work expectations/arrangements;
• The Great Resignation;
• AI and automation;
• Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion;
• Climate change;
• Emerging economies; and
• CSR/ethics/sustainability
The new edition also includes several new opening and closing brief cases to promote applied reflection and discussion, as well as updated references to important research. With its practical, real-world emphasis, including frequent use of current examples, the text also serves as a useful resource for guiding the global workforce management and decision-making of current and future general managers and human resource practitioners.
This book is essential reading for general graduate and undergraduate business students, as well as those in specialty programs in International Business and Human Resources.
About the author
Charles Vance is an active researcher, graduate and undergraduate instructor, and consultant in areas of international human resources and training development. He has published widely, and his work has taken him to many countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He is now professor emeritus at Loyola Marymount University, USA.
Yongsun Paik is Professor of International Business and Management, Director of the Center for International Business Education and the Center for Asian Business at Loyola Marymount University, USA. His primary research interests focus on international human resource management, international entrepreneurship, business ethics, and Asia Pacific business studies.
Fabian Jintae Froese is Chair Professor of Human Resource Management and Asian Business at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and a Joint Appointment Professor of International Business at Yonsei University, South Korea. In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief of Asian Business & Management and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management. His areas of expertise are in expatriation, diversity, talent management, and digital HRM.
Torben Andersen is Associate Professor, PhD (CBS and University of Warwick) and works at Department of Business Development and Technology (Herning), Aarhus University, Denmark. Torben Andersen’s research has been concentrating on structural, strategic, and change aspects of HRM and International HRM. He was visiting professor at San Francisco State University (2000), University of Auckland, New Zealand (2005), and Bamberg University (2016). He has taught in a variety of countries from Iceland, Germany, the UK, China, and New Zealand to the USA.
