International Dimensions of Human
Resource Management
6 ECTS / 180 h
Modulverantwortliche/r: Prof. Torben Andersen, PhD (International Guest Professor)
Inhalte:
Content:
• Defining International Human Resource Management: Peculiarities of IHRM, the organisational context
in the path to global status
• Cross-cultural human resource management: The impact of national culture on selected fields in HRM,
models of intercultural competence
• Comparative Human Resource Management: National differences in selected fields of HRM (cultural
vs. institutional explanation), their causes and impact, future development (convergence vs. divergence),
implications for IHRM (universalist vs. contextualist paradigm)
• Human Resource Management in MNCs: Strategic IHRM (e.g. centralisation vs. localisation; transfer of
HR instruments between headquarters and foreign subsidiaries), international resourcing strategies and
expatriation, international training and development
Lernziele/Kompetenzen:
Students can:
• define and illustrate the key components of International Human Resource Management.
• analyse the impact of culture and the institutional context on IHRM and determine effects of
convergence/divergence.
• explain the role national differences make in the practice of IHRM.
• describe and give examples of how effective IHRM policies and practices lead to international business
success. apply principles and examples to self-chosen countries as well as real life case studies.
Bemerkung:
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/bwl-pm
Empfohlene Vorkenntnisse:
keine
Besondere
Bestehensvoraussetzungen:
Siehe Prüfungsordnung
Angebotshäufigkeit: SS
(international guest professor)
Empfohlenes Fachsemester:
Minimale Dauer des Moduls:
1.
1 Semester
Lehrveranstaltungen
1. Seminaristischer Unterricht
Sprache: Englisch
Angebotshäufigkeit: SS
(international guest professor)
Literatur:
• Brewster, C., Sparrow, P.R., Vernon, G., & Houldsworth, E. (2011).
International Human Resource Management. London: Chartered Institute of
•Personnel
Caligiuri, and
P., Lepak,
D., & Bonache, J. (2015). Managing the Global Workforce –
Development.
Global Dimensions of Business. Chichester: Wiley.
• Dowling, P.J., Festing, M., & Engle, A.D. (2013). International Human Resource
Management. London: South-Western.
• Special literature regarding the different topics of the course.
2,00 SWS
2. Übung
Sprache: Englisch
Angebotshäufigkeit: SS
Prüfung
Klausur / written exam
Beschreibung:
Klausur / written exam (60 min)
1,00 SWS

Curriculum Vitae J.L. Dowell August 2014 Department of Philosophy