Human resource management and cultural diversity: a case study in Mozambique

Abstract

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Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique

“…Informal recruitment methods were also more common in Mozambique, which might again reflect limitations in literacy and infrastructural weaknesses, or might be due to the operation of extended informal networks of support that interpenetrate many African countries (Hyden, 1983), and/ or the stronger emphasis on communitarian ties (c.f. Sartorius et al, 2012). …”

“…HRM in Africa remains relatively under-researched (Ellis, Nyuur, & Debrah, 2015;Kamoche, Debrah, Horwitz, & Muuka, 2004;Wood & Brewster, 2007; see also Horwitz & Budhwar, 2015). There is a very little research on HRM in Mozambique (Dibben, 2010;Dibben & Nadin, 2011;Sartorius, Merino, & Carmichael, 2012), and more generally, there remains a paucity of empirical comparative analysis and longitudinal studies of past and contemporary HRM and employment relations between former colonial regimes and their independent state offspring. This paper adds to the limited body of research by comparing employment relations and HRM in Mozambique with the former colonial power, Portugal.…”

Bringing Africa In: Promising Directions for Management Research

“…Diffusion of management practices across cultures is also a dominant subtheme. For instance, studies suggest mixed attitudes among domestic managers toward prospective foreign joint ventures (Akande & Banai, 2009) and highlight how Western-based human resource management can be modified to embrace cultural diversity in an African context (Sartorius, Merino, & Carmichael, 2011).…”

Pressures towards and against formalization: Regulation and informal employment in Mozambique

“…The literature on employment relations and human resource management (HRM) in emerging economies encompasses explorations of paternalist styles of management, the methods used in selection and recruitment such as informal patronage, and the way in which HR practices, in common with everyday relationships, are underpinned by an understanding of reciprocal rights and duties (Kamoche, 2002;Jackson, 2002;Sartorius, Merino and Carmichael, 2012).…”