Researching comparative and international human resource management: Key challenges and contributions

Timothy Adrian Robert CLARK, Singapore Management University
David GRANT
Marielle HEIJLTJES

Abstract

As an increasing number of organizations seek to operate in foreign markets, it is vital that management practitioners develop a better understanding of, and sensitivity to, the impact of different national settings on the management task. In the field of cross-cultural management/organization, scholars have sought to assist practitioners in achieving this by conducting research that has generally been guided by two key questions: (1) what is general and universal in the management of organizations; and (2) what is peculiar or specific to one nation or culture?