Luiz, John and Spicer, Diana (2019) Global configurations in multinational enterprises, duality, and the challenge of LGBT inclusivity in unsympathetic host countries within Africa. International Journal of Human Resource Management. ISSN 0958-5192 (Accepted)

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Abstract

MNEs’ human resource management (HRM) practices need to be mindful of the institutional differences between the local context of host countries and that of their home countries. Balancing the localization of HRM practices with the desire for global standardization and integration is a dilemma for MNEs. We examine this tension utilizing a unique perspective, namely by analyzing the HRM challenges that MNEs face with regard to LGBT employees in Africa. We find that MNEs experience difficulty in reconciling their global corporate values and HR policies with local institutions and legislative requirements. Several contributions result. Firstly, by bringing issues of duality to the fore both at the organizational and individual level. Secondly, we contribute towards the global configuration literature in international HRM as regards global standardization and national differentiation, by focusing on developing countries, where the scale of the cultural or institutional distance between home and host countries are likely to be larger, which allows us to examine the difficulties of the transfer of HR practices to these sites. Third, we embed our analysis of localization within institutional theory, and lastly, we integrate these contributions into an analysis of HRM challenges of LGBT employees in hostile contexts and make recommendations.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Business, Management and Economics > Business and Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5549 Personnel management. Employment management
Depositing User:	John Luiz
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2019 15:34
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2019 15:34
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/81718

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