1) The document provides preparatory work and questions for an upcoming seminar on the impact of globalization on human resource management.
2) Students are asked to review lecture materials and read an article on this topic before class to understand key concepts like convergence, divergence, and different theoretical approaches to international HRM.
3) The seminar activity will involve analyzing the journal article and answering questions in small groups and as a full class to discuss the article's findings on factors that influence convergence and divergence in global HRM practices.
1) The document provides preparatory work and questions for an upcoming seminar on the impact of globalization on human resource management.
2) Students are asked to review lecture materials and read an article on this topic before class to understand key concepts like convergence, divergence, and different theoretical approaches to international HRM.
3) The seminar activity will involve analyzing the journal article and answering questions in small groups and as a full class to discuss the article's findings on factors that influence convergence and divergence in global HRM practices.
1) The document provides preparatory work and questions for an upcoming seminar on the impact of globalization on human resource management.
2) Students are asked to review lecture materials and read an article on this topic before class to understand key concepts like convergence, divergence, and different theoretical approaches to international HRM.
3) The seminar activity will involve analyzing the journal article and answering questions in small groups and as a full class to discuss the article's findings on factors that influence convergence and divergence in global HRM practices.
• Review your notes and PPT slides from this week’s
lecture ‘The Context for International HRM (I)’
• Read the article ‘Impact of globalisation on HRM’
– If you need to translate text in the article to understand it, you should do this before the seminar
• Both lecture slides and the article can be found in the
‘Globalisation’ section On Moodle Recap from the lecture • What were the key ideas and themes in the lecture?
• What were your key learning points?
Seminar activity - Understanding and analyzing a journal article Questions – class discussion 1. In one/two sentence(s), what is the paper about? 2. Define the following concepts: – Convergence – Divergence – Best practice – Institutional theory – Contingency approach Questions – group discussion & feedback
3. According to the authors, what causes
convergence? 4. According to the authors, what makes convergence difficult or impossible? 5. What conclusion do the authors come to?