Transnational Management or Public Personnel Administration

Transnational Management: Text, Cases & Readings in Cross-Border Management

Author: Christopher A Bartlett

TRANSNATIONAL MANAGEMENT focuses on the management challenges associated with developing strategies and managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework of the interplay between the multinational corporation, the countries in which it does business, and the competitive environment in which it operates. Through text narrative, cases, and readings, the authors skillfully examine the development of strategy, organizational capabilities, and management challenges for operating in the global economy.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: The Strategic Imperatives

Chapter 1: Expanding Abroad: Motivations, Means, and Mentalities

Cases

1-1
Cameron Auto Parts (A) — Revised

1-2
Jollibee Foods Corporation (A): International Expansion

1-3
Acer, Inc: Taiwan's Rampaging Dragon

Readings

1-1
The Tortuous Evolution of the Multinational Corporation

1-2
Distance Still Matters: The Hard Reality of Global Expansion

1-3
Going Global: Lessons from Late Movers

Chapter 2: Understanding the International Context: Responding to Conflicting Environmental Forces

Cases

2-1
Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices

2-2
Global Wine Wars: New World Challenges Old (A)

2-3
HSBC Holdings

Readings

2-1
Culture and Organization

2-2
Clusters and the New Economics of Competition

2-3
Beyond Offshoring: Assess Your Company’s Global Potential

Chapter 3: Developing Transnational Strategies: Building Layers of Competitive Advantage

Cases

3-1
TCL Multimedia

3-2
The Global Branding of Stella Artois

3-3
The Globalization of CEMEX

3-4
General Electric Medical Systems, 2002

Readings

3-1
The Forgotten Strategy

3-2
Global Strategy…in a World of Nations?

3-3
Competition in Global Industries: A Conceptual Framework

Part 2: The Organizational Challenge

Chapter 4: Developing a Transnational Organization: Managing Integration, Responsiveness, and Flexibility

Cases

4-1
Philips versus Matsushita: A New Century, a New Round

4-2
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International(B)

4-3
Bombardier Transportation and the Adtranz Acquisition

4-4
World Vision International’s AIDS Initiative: Challenging a Global Partnership

Readings

4-1
Making Global Strategies Work

4-2
Building Ambidexterity into an Organization

4-3
Matrix Management: Not a Structure, a Frame of Mind

Chapter 5: Creating Worldwide Innovation and Learning: Exploiting Cross Border Knowledge Management

Cases

5-1
Time Warner Inc. and the ORC Patents

5-2
P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project

5-3
McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning

5-4
The Transformation of BP

Readings

5-1
Unleash Innovation in Foreign Subsidiaries

5-2
Connect and Develop: Inside Proctor & Gamble's New Model for Innovation

5-3
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

Chapter 6: Engaging in Cross Border Collaboration: Managing across Corporate Boundaries

Cases

6-1
Nora-Sakari: A Proposed JV in Malaysia (Revised)

6-2
Renault/Nissan: The Making of a Global Alliance

6-3
Eli Lilly in India: Rethinking the Joint Venture Strategy

Readings

6-1
The Design and Management of International Joint Ventures

6-2
Collaborate Your Competitors — and Win

Part 3: The Managerial Implications

Chapter 7: Implementing the Strategy: Building Multidimensional Capabilities

Cases

7-1
Larson in Nigeria (Revised)

7-2
BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company

7-3
Silvio Napoli at Schindler India

7-4
Taming the Dragon: Cummins in China (Condensed)Readings

7-1
Local Memoirs of a Global Manager

7-2
Tap Your Subsidiaries for Global Reach

Chapter 8: The Future of the Transnational: An Evolving Global Role

Cases

8-1
IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

8-2
Genzyme’s Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility

Readings

8-1
The Myth of the Generic Manager: New Personal Competencies for New Management Roles

8-2
Serving the World’s Poor

Look this: An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care or Organizational Behavior in Education

Public Personnel Administration: Problems and Prospects

Author: Steven W Ed Hays

This collection of original manuscripts—representing a cross-section of the timeliest scholarship in public personnel administration—explores the theme of “problems and prospects” in public personnel administration. The contributions are organized into four broad sections: The Setting, The Techniques, The Issues, and Reform and the Future. Section One focuses primarily on the social, political, economic, and legal trends that have served as catalysts in the transformation of public personnel administration. Section Two is composed of selections that summarize developments in the practice of HRM, with special emphasis on emerging personnel techniques and the ways that traditional approaches to the staffing function are being revised. Section Three discusses and suggests responses to some of the most troublesome or pervasive issues in modern personnel management. The final section assesses the probable trends in the field's future, and analyzes the efficacy of recent reform efforts. For human resource personnel looking to broaden their perspective in the field.

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Thought pieces, descriptive analyses, reviews of various settings, and theoretical essays in this anthology overview the problems and prospects of modern public personnel administration, summarizing the biggest challenges confronting human resource management practitioners and offering suggestions for improvement of the practice of public personnel management. This fourth edition reflects major changes in the field, such as the abolition of the merit system in public personnel operations, and includes the work of fifteen new authors. Hays is affiliated with the University of South Carolina. Kearney is affiliated with East Carolina University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Sect. 1	The Setting	1
1	The Political Context of Public Personnel Administration	3
2	Competing Perspectives on Public Personnel Administration: Patronage, Civil Service, and Privatization	16
3	What Every Public Personnel Manager Should Know About the Constitution	29
4	Personnel Management in the Local Government Setting	46
5	The American Federal Bureaucracy: A Retrospective Look at Reinvention and Reform	62
6	Deregulating the Public Personnel Function	75
Sect. 2	The Techniques	91
7	Strategic Human Resource Management	93
8	Issues, Challenges, and Changes in Recruitment and Selection	106
9	Why Public Managers Hate Position Classification	126
10	Compensation, Merit Pay, and Motivation	143
11	The Trials and Tribulations of Performance Appraisal: Problems and Prospects on Entering the Twenty-First Century	154
12	Public Employee Benefits and the Changing Nature of the Workforce	167
Sect. 3	The Issues	181
13	Productivity and Privatization: The Human Resource Management Connection	183
14	Privatizing Personnel: Outsourcing Public Sector Functions	196
15	Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action in the Public Sector	209
16	Sexual Harassment in the Workplace	225
17	Working Together: Meeting the Challenge of Workplace Diversity	238
18	The Difference That Gender Makes	256
19	Disabled or Not Disabled: How Does the Americans With Disabilities Act Affect Employment Policies?	271
20	Supplementing Common Myths With Uncommon Management: The Effective Involvement of Volunteers in Delivering Public Services	287
21	Ethics and Human Resource Management	301
Sect. 4	Reform and the Future	317
22	Problems and Prospects for Public Employee Unions and Public Managers	319
23	Facing Fundamental Challenges in Reforming Public Personnel Administration	334
24	Reforming Public Sector Human Resource Management: Best Practices From the Practitioner's View	352
25	The Reform Agenda: Where Do We Go From Here?	367
	Index	379