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Further conceptual and methodological issues in international and comparative HRM: cross-disciplinary lessons from the UK's 2024 National Service debate

ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

This webinar develops insights from the presenter's 2024 HRMR paper "Conceptual and methodological issues in international and comparative HRM: transferring lessons from comparative public policy". Divided into three main sections, it begins by briefly elaborating on six dichotomies identified in the paper's three headline disciplines: 1) conceptual/methodological, 2) international/comparative, 3) convergence/divergence, 4) standardisation/localisation, 5) transfer/diffusion, 6) feasibility/adaptability.

It then uses comparable case study evidence of the United Kingdom's 2024 election debate on National Service to detail the iterative purification process necessary to conceptualise and contextualise comparable phenomenon within an international context. By exploring the historical, spatial, and developmental reasons why countries adopt national service, the mini-case study also examines the related prospects for lesson learning and policy transfer, before converting them to an HR context. Finally, the webinar concludes by revisiting the issue of case selection across the single, small-N, and large-N study possibilities, both within and across subject disciplines.

Date & Time

September 26 - 8:30am - 9:30am PDT (Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco)

September 26 - 11:30am - 12:30PM EDT(Toronto, Boston, New York, Miami)

September 26 – 4:30pm - 5:30pm GMT(London)

September 26 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm CEST (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)

September 26 – 11:30pm - 12:30am CST (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei)

September 26  - 12:30am - 1:30am JST (Tokyo, Kyoto)

September 26  - 1:30am - 2:30am AEST (Melbourne, Sydney)

September 26  - 3:30pm - 4:30pm (UTC).

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As an international partnership, the IHRM series welcomes speakers from all over the world and multiple time zones. This session will be recorded to share with registrants who are not able to attend the live session.

Registration

The event is free and open to anyone who is interested, but you must register to receive the zoom link to attend. This link will be emailed to you 24 hours before the event.

Inquiries

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paul Higgins

Paul Higgins is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University. His research interests straddle the public policy, HRM, and leadership domains. He is currently conducting research exploring 1) the changing quality of life conditions at local authority level across England over a twenty-year period, and 2) an international comparative study of HR professionalisation.

This session will be moderated by Elaine Farndale, Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of the School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University (USA), and Founder and Director of the Center for International Human Resource Studies.

ABOUT THE SERIES

This event is part of an IHRM Webinar Series, organized by the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Center for International Human Resource Studies at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), Pennsylvania Western University (USA), ESCP Business School and RIT Croatia (Europe).

Previous installments of the IHRM Webinar Series are available online on our YouTube Channel.