Global talent management and global talent challenges: Strategic opportunities for IHRM

The need for multinational firms to be as competitive in the global marketplace as possible has increased dramatically over the past twenty years. For international human resource management this has meant many strategic opportunities to international human resource management. An excellent example of such an opportunity is that which exists regarding the management of talent. This opportunity began to develop in the late 1990s with the advent of the challenge of “global talent management.” During the past few years this opportunity has expanded to include challenges dealing with talent shortages, talent surpluses, locating and relocating talent, and compensation levels of talent. Together, these conditions are all “global talent challenges”. In this article we describe these several global talent challenges and the strategic opportunities they present to firms and propose the implications of these for firms and for the field of international human resource management.     

出口加工制造业面临的挑战与对策——以富士康国际控股有限公司为例

以富士康为代表的出口加工制造企业,曾经为我国的经济增长和就业做出了积极贡献。但是,兼具制造和技术竞争优势的富士康却仍旧是低附加值代工企业。如今,富士康面临要素成本上升、定价能力缺失、盈利能力下降等挑战。富士康采取了生产基地迁移和商业模式转变等积极的应对策略,力图在保持成本优势的同时,实现向"服务的富士康"和"创新的富士康"的转变。此外,要解决代工企业竞争力下滑的难题,还需要社会各界的多方面支持。     

发展低碳经济对我国出口的影响分析

从20世纪80年代起,臭氧空洞、全球气候变化等一系列的全球环境问题向人类敲响了警钟,为应对全球气候变化和非可再生能源枯竭等问题,以低能耗、低污染、低排放为特征的"低碳经济"成为全球热点。首先分析了我国现有的能源、出口结构和发展低碳经济的必要性,进一步阐述了我国发展低碳出口的挑战和机遇,进而提出了改变高能耗和高排放的贸易结构、实现产品结构和技术层次的升级、优化产业结构、征收出口碳税等相应政策。     

论WTO对中国人力资源管理制度的挑战及应对措施

随着世界经济和科学技术的飞速发展,世界工业社会不断向信息社会、知识经济时代迈进。中国加入WTO,标志着我国经济已全面融入世界经济当中。面对加入WTO的无限商机,中国企业面临重大挑战．而作为企业发展第一要素的人力资源管理应如何在竞争中转变传统的管理模式,把中国的现代企业管理纳入到世界管理体系中,从而达到中国经济模式与世界接轨的目的,已经成为亟待探讨的课题。     

RETHINKING THE RESEARCH FUNDING PROCESS: An Indian Perspective

In this paper I focus on the substantial research funding cuts announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in March 2021 to examine the process of funding for and participation in global research projects for researchers based in Southern institutions. I focus here on three key aspects of participating in global research projects: first, the structures through which these grants are created—the programmatic frameworks or other imperatives that confine and limit this work to Northern/Western-centric frames; secondly, the precarity of these grants and the work that they generate; and, thirdly, the increasingly output-related and time-bound nature of work in light of limited support. I argue that the effects of these are felt disproportionately by those located in the global South and are therefore worth considering as part of larger debates centred on democratizing and decolonizing knowledge networks.     

RISK AND RETURNS: Large-scale Funding for Urban Research

The nature of research funding shapes knowledge outcomes, especially for urban research that is conducted in multiple sites and over multiple years. Recent unplanned cuts in the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants, alongside the rupture caused by Covid-19, created ethical and procedural issues for completing the PEAK Urban programme. Building on durable partnerships, setting principles for the reduced fund distribution and adjusting modes of working enabled PEAK Urban to navigate the fiscal disruption—but the difficult episode highlights lessons for the ethical organization of global urban research under conditions of uncertainty.