ABOUT THIS WEEK

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) standardization/localization, 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 conceptualize and contextualize comparable phenomena within an international context. The mini-case study also examines the related prospects for lesson learning and policy transfer before converting them to an HR context by exploring the historical, spatial, and developmental reasons why countries adopt national service. 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:

• Sept 26 - 8:30 am - 9:30 am PST (Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco)
• Sept 26 - 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (Toronto, Boston, New York, Miami)
• Sept 26 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm GMT (London)
• Sept 26 - 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm CET (Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Zagreb)
• Sept 26 - 11:30 pm - 12:30 am CST (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei)
• Sept 27 - 12:30 am - 1:30 am JST (Tokyo, Kyoto)
• Sept 27 - 1:30 am - 2:30 am AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney)
• Sept 27 - 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm (UTC)

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The IHRM series welcomes speakers worldwide and in multiple time zones as an international partnership. This session will be recorded and shared with registrants who cannot 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: IHRMWebinarSeries@psu.edu.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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 the local authority level across England over a twenty-year period and 2) an international comparative study of HR professionalization.

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 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.