IHRM Webinar Series #18 - Questioning Elitism in International Human Resource Management Studies

Описание: IHRM Webinar Series has been co-organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Penn State Center for International Human Resource Studies (USA), ESCP Business School (Europe), RIT Croatia (Croatia), and Clarion University (USA)

About the presentation:
I will argue that IHRM (like business and management studies in general and human resource management studies specifically) has operated from an elitist base: that has not only led to a distortion in our research but has led to some unwanted, negative and even nefarious outcomes. This has been caused by our focus on the interests of owners of businesses (when the vast majority of people are not owners); on large international organizations (when 95% of people work in small local ones); on managers and executives (when 80% of people are neither); on talent management (when 95% of people are not classed as talent); on western organizations (when most of the world does not fit into that category); on employed people (when increasing proportions of workers are outside employment); on indigenous populations (when increasing numbers are migrants); etc. What this means is that we have largely ignored the problems and issues of most people in the world. I will suggest that focusing on the non-elite will avoid contributing further to the negative impact our work has created so far and positively address some of the Grand Challenges that the world is facing. - Chris Brewster

About the speaker:
Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. He was successively a steeplejack, a union official, an official in the UK’s Ministry of Labour, a personnel manager in the construction and aviation industries, a journalist and consultant. During that time, he obtained his doctorate from the LSE before becoming an academic.

As an academic, he studies international and comparative human resource management. He is a frequent conference speaker and teaches at Universities around the world. He has written or edited nearly forty books, including, recently, the Handbook of Research on Comparative Human Resource Management and Working Internationally: Expatriation, Migration and other International Work. He has also published more than 150 book chapters and more than 250 articles in refereed journals. According to Googlescholar he has been cited more than 25,000 times and has an h-index of 84. In 2002 Chris was awarded the Georges Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resource management; and in 2006 Chris was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa, Finland.

This session is moderated by Maja Vidovic, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Economics and Business at RIT Croatia.