Title: A European perspective on HRM

Authors: Chris Brewster

Addresses: University of Reading, P.O. Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA, UK

Abstract: This paper provides a European perspective on Human Resource Management (HRM). It explores these issues by examining the growing field of comparative HRM; exploring some of the conceptual approaches to the topic and the different explanations for national differences that they espouse; considering some of the issues that make HRM in Europe distinctive; examining the notion of Europe itself and the variations within it; and considering whether the differences within Europe are reducing over time as a result of globalisation. The paper argues that Europe offers a wider ranging and more critical concept of HRM.

Keywords: comparative HRM; Europe; paradigms; critical HRM; human resource management; globalisation; European management.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2007.014696

European Journal of International Management, 2007 Vol.1 No.3, pp.239 - 259

Published online: 25 Jul 2007 *

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