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GBM6019 Global HRM

Seminar 1
Preparatory work
Before the seminar:

• 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?

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