Outsourcing and Human Resource Management

Outsourcing is an increasingly popular strategy deployed by a variety of institutions, including banks, multinational companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This book examines outsourcing in Japan, Europe and the United States from a broad standpoint, with particular emphasis on the role of human resource management - that goes beyond the traditional view of outsourcing as simply a cost-saving exercise. Including detailed comparative case studies, explaining the role of outsourcing in Poland, the South Korean IT industry, and the Japanese and Chinese/British automotive sectors, this book:considers how outsourcing can best be made to workexplores the human side of outsourcing offers practical advice for improving organizational relationships and performancelooks at important practices such as insourcing provides much needed analysis of the risk and insurance issues involved in outsourcing.