Critique of `Transferring Western HRM practices to developing countries - The case of privatized utility in Jordan`

Critique of `Transferring Western HRM practices to developing countries - The case of privatized utility in Jordan

1 . Introduction

The gradual developments in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM are today well documented (see for instance , Schuler and Jackson , 1999 and Sisson and Storey , 2000 . In spite of that , the eager discussions on HRM issues continue even though their focus has transformed with the lapse of time . The main which interested researchers in the 1980s was the gradual development of HRM . Then the moved on to issues belonging to the inclusion

and adaptation of industrial relations into HRM (Guest , 2001 then the combination of the HRM practices with business strategies , and seeing HRM as an important source of competitive advantage for modern global companies (Braun and Warner 2002 . At the moment , there is an ongoing discussion regarding the contribution of Western HRM practices to the Third World firm 's performance (for example , Bjtzrkman and Fan 2002

While some highly important HRM research findings have been produced in recent decades , research has often been based on generalized data or the researchers looked at HRM issues in Western Europe or the United States of America . In essence , these researches have focused their attention on HRM practices in advanced industrial countries of the West . As relatively very little analysis on incorporation of Western HRM practices by developing countries has been done , many researchers have put forward the need for more comprehensive cross-national HRM evaluation . The goal of the `Transferring...