The seminar will be delivered by Professor Michael Morley, Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management & Marketing at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick.

According to Professor Michael Morley: "In the context of an ever-increasing evolution towards global activity in business venturing, the notion of international human resource management has concomitantly grown in stature in recent years.  Nonetheless, despite emerging evidence on its value to the international firm, and its increased visibility within academic quarters, defining and delimiting the nature of this field and all its constituent parts poses something of a challenge. This is perhaps hardly surprising. Determining the anatomy and impact of the human resource management and its associated activities in a domestic context has proven somewhat elusive. It was always going to be more so in an international one."

In this presentation, Michael will distinguish different research trajectories in international human resource management, debate the progress made to date and highlight the ongoing research challenges that underscore cross cultural research of this nature. The concept of 'trajectory' is used  in order to denote the existence of a distinctive line of enquiry, a distinctiveness which may be observed both in terms of differing points of departure in the original research effort and consequently unique developmental paths in terms of the major themes investigated.
 
Michael Morley is Professor of Management and Head of the Department of Management & Marketing at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, where he teaches international management. He previously served as Head of the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, as Assistant Dean of Research and as Director of the Doctoral Research Programme. He has co-authored/edited some fifteen books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters in sources such as Advances in International Management, The Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Review and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Among his recent books are International Human Resource Management and International Assignments, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), New Directions in Expatriate Research (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Global Industrial Relations (Routledge, 2006), Human Resource Management in Europe: Evidence of Convergence (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004) and New Challenges for European Human Resource Management (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). His current research interests include Traditions and Transitions in HRM in Central and Eastern Europe (the subject of a forthcoming book to be published by Routledge), Human Resource Management in MNCs in Europe, International Assignments and Intercultural Transitional Adjustment and he works collaboratively with a network of international scholars investigating these issues. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, Regional Editor of the European Journal of International Management and is a member of the Editorial Board of 9 other international journals including the International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Management Revue and Leadership and Organization Development Journal. He is the current Chair of the Irish Academy of Management.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, April 29th from 12 noon to 1pm in Room 1.01, O'Rahilly Building.  All welcome.

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