• DOI:10.1080/09585199200000157
• Corpus ID: 153945168

Human resource management in Europe: evidence from ten countries

@article{Brewster1992HumanRM,
  title={Human resource management in Europe: evidence from ten countries},
  author={Chris Brewster and Henrik HoltLarsen and Fons J. Trompenaars},
  journal={International Journal of Human Resource Management},
  year={1992},
  volume={3},
  pages={409-434}
}

• C. Brewster, Henrik HoltLarsen, F. Trompenaars
• Published 1 December 1992
• Business
• International Journal of Human Resource Management

The subject of human resource management (HRM) and its development has been much contested in the literature. Most of the relevant theories originated in the United States of America. There is in the literature no distinctly ‘European’ approach to HRM and, indeed, our knowledge of comparative HRM practices in different European states is limited. This paper draws on a major new research project which has gathered data from ten European countries to argue that practices in these countries can be categorized, inter alia, by the degree of integration of HRM into business strategy and the degree of devolvement to line managers. Using these two dimensions gives a quite distinct picture of differences in HRM practices in the ten European countries. These differences are analysed and the validity of the model is discussed. Such a categorization raises the need to consider different conceptual approaches to HRM.