Take a few minutes to think about the options.

• Is the way organisations have to go through the processes of recruiting, inducting, developing, paying and working with staff so similar in every country that general points about how human resources are managed (or perhaps should be managed) are valid?

• Or is it the case that things are done so differently in different countries that we have to be very aware of the location in which human resources are being managed before we can understand them?

• Or, can we combine these two accounts and, if so, how?