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Human Resource Development in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context

In: New Challenges for European Human Resource Management

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  • Olga Tregaskis

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An organisation’s human resource development (HRD) system is a key mechanism for enabling the achievement of business goals through what has been argued to be one of the few remaining sources of competitive advantage (Pedler et al., 1988) — namely, people. It is also closely linked to national contextual factors. As such, the political and educational system play an important role in determining the types and levels of skills available in the labour market as well as in shaping national values and approaches to training and development issues. National context can therefore be considered a key predictor of organisational HRD practice. However, globalisation has introduced many changes, one of which has been the increasing presence of foreign multinationals (or MNEs) in host countries. Under such conditions, there is a need to compare the role of the host-national context to that of the parent in shaping MNE management practice.

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  • Olga Tregaskis, 2000. "Human Resource Development in Foreign Multinational Enterprises: Assessing the Impact of Parent Origin Versus Host Country Context," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Chris Brewster & Wolfgang Mayrhofer & Michael Morley (ed.), New Challenges for European Human Resource Management, chapter 8, pages 141-167, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-59795-2_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230597952_8
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