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The concept of human resources management (HRM) has been much debated in the literature. The concept developed initially from work in the U.S.A. in the 1960s and 1970s and since then has been adopted increasingly around the world. This paper argues that in Europe there is only limited acceptance of the organizational autonomy upon which the concept in based, and that, therefore, different approaches to the notion of human resource management are required. External constraints are analysed and a new model of the concept that would encompass EuroHRM is proposed.
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*Chris Brewster is Professor of European Human Resource Management at the School of Management, Cranfield University, U.K. He is Director of the Centre for European HRM which conducts a major triennial survey of HRM policy and practice in fifteen European countries and is currently being undertaken in the Pacific region. Many of his publications report on this research.
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Brewster, C. Towards a ‘European’ Model of Human Resource Management. J Int Bus Stud 26, 1–21 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490163
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490163