Global Trends in Human Resource Management

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors and Contributors Introduction; E.Parry, E.Stavrou & M.Lazarova 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose'. A Longitudinal Analysis of HRM Work and the Profile of Senior HR Managers; M.Lazarova, W.Mayrhofer & C.Brewster New Captain but a Sinking Ship? The Influence of HR Director's Gender on the Status of the HR Department - a Longitudinal Study; A.Reichel, J.Brandl & W.Mayrhofer CSR and Responsible HRM in the CEE and Nordic Countries; R.Kazlauskaite, P.E.M.Ligthart, I.Buciuniene & S.Vanhala HRM Policies and Firm Performance: The Role of the Synergy of Policies; E.Poutsma, P.E.M.Ligthart & B.Dietz Human Resource Management in the Central and Eastern European Region; R.Kazlauskaite, I.Buciuniene, J.Poor, Z.Karoliny, R.Alas, A.Kohont & A.Szlavicz Converging and Diverging Trends in HRM between Nordic Countries and Estonia; R.Alas & S.Vanhala HRM in Scandinavia - Embedded in the Scandinavian Model?; T.Lindeberg, B.Manson& H.H.Larsen Divergent Norwegian and North American HRM Regimes: Implications for Norwegian MNEs; P.Gooderham, B.Grogaard & O.Nordhaug The Development of Employee Financial Participation in Europe; E.Poutsma, P.Ligthart, A.Pendleton & C.Brewster Information Technology Systems in the Human Resource Management Area; H.Peretz The Use of Flexible Working Across National Contexts and its Relationship to Organizational Performance; M.Koch

RUTH ALAS Head of Management Department at Estonian Business School, Estonia JULIA BRANDL Professor for Human Resource Management and Work at Innsbruck University School of Management, Austria CHRIS BREWSTER Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK ILONA BUCIUNIENE Vice Dean of PhD Studies, Chairman of Doctoral Committee, and a member of Senate at ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania BART DIETZ Assistant Professor in the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management, Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, Netherlands PAUL GOODERHAM Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway BIRGITTE GROGAARD Assistant Professor in Haskayne School of Economics at the University of Calgary, Canada HENRIK HOLT LARSEN Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark ZSUZSA KAROLINY Associate Professor at University of Pécs, Hungary R?TA KAZLAUSKAIT? Professor at ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania MICHAEL KOCH ANDREJ KOHONT Researcher and Teacher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia PAUL E.M. LIGTHART Assistant Professor of Strategy in the Department of Business Administration of Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands TINA LINDEBERG Consultant at the IPF Institute of Uppsala University, Sweden BO MÅNSON Senior Consultant at the IPF Institute of Uppsala University, Sweden WOLFGANG MAYRHOFER Professor of business administration and holds a chair for management and organisational behaviour at WU Vienna, Austria ODD NORDHAUG Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics, Norway ANDREW PENDLETON Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of York Management School, UK HILLA PERETZ Senior faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering and