For the conference academics and practitioners are invited in their contributions to address issues such as:

Stream 1: Strategic HRM and Performance in Global Context
• Effectiveness of IHRM policies and practices
• Applicability of high performance work practices and best HRM bundles around the globe
• Drivers of variation in HRM practices
• Role of HR function and HR professionals in global corporations
• Sustainable HRM strategies for global competitiveness
• Measuring HRM performance in global context

Stream 2: International Human Resource Management
• Transferability of HR practices across borders
• The dual logics behind IHRM: global integration versus local responsiveness
• Managing an international workforce, e.g. human resource development, compensation, performance management, industrial safety

Stream 3: Globalization of Industries
• Effects of multiculturalism on HRM
• Multicultural recognition in HRM
• Managing cultural integration in international mergers and acquisitions
• FDIs: adopting host country HRM or introducing home country HRM
• Transfer of production into low cost countries

Stream 4: Corporate Social Responsibility
• International business ethics and ethical challenges relating to globalization
• Role of multinational enterprises in laying the foundation for HRM in developing countries
• Humanistic versus instrumental  views of people in organizations
• Organizational justice and trust in the global business environment
• Work restructuring for the sake of maintaining jobs

Stream 5: Decent Work
• Standards and rights at work
• Employability: education, skills development and technology
• Upgrading work and enterprises in the informal economy
• Migration for work, within borders and internationally
• Social protection policies
• Decent work opportunities for young women and men
• Equality in diversity

Stream 6: International Industrial Relations
• Labour market regulations
• Exporting jobs into low-cost countries: consequences on company IR and psychological commitment
• Effects of labor mobility on wages and on other terms of working
• Flexible employment contracts versus job security
• Psychological contract fulfillment
• Organizing for voice and participation
• Governance and social dialogue

Stream 7 (for practitioners): Global HRM in Practice
• Real life cases of HRM/IR in international context