ABSTRACT
Human Resource Management (HRM) is an American concept: it came, and new ideas about it tend still to come, to researchers and practitioners in Europe from the United States of America. How relevant is it to the European context? What is distinctive about the European notion of HRM? Is there evidence of one model of HRM in Europe, or of many? And are approaches to HRM in Europe coalescing around a US model, or a distinctly European model, or are they staying embedded in their own national contexts so that there are as many models as there are countries?
