There is growing worldwide demand for professionals and leaders who can devise and apply creative human resource solutions across national and international contexts. Success in these roles requires mastery of comparative HR practice, combined with sensitivity to context and insight into both employers' and employees' needs. This course will equip you with a critical grasp of the issues, themes and challenges central to managing people, whatever the context. The course will suit you if you're seeking, or have already started, a career in managing people or as a specialist HR professional anywhere in the world. Its international focus is particularly relevant if your career plans involve working in: other countries international organisations within your home country (including the UK), or home country organisations which emulate the highest standards of HRM practice worldwide.