About us
The Center for Global HRM is a research hub dedicated to global HR issues. Its overarching mission is to strengthen Sweden’s competitiveness by advancing knowledge about the conditions required to develop effective HR policies and foster a sustainable, balanced working life.
Purpose
In 2012, private and public sector representatives and academia agreed to establish the Centre for Global HRM at the University of Gothenburg. The centre’s activities are financed by academic, private and public organisations.
- The centre acts as a knowledge hub and meeting place for scholars and professionals in HRM and has the following goals:
- To strengthen Swedish HRM research through broad collaborations on local, national and global levels,
- To be a knowledge bank on HRM issues on local, national and global levels,
- To initiate, develop and advance relevant HRM research and development in dialogue with the private and public organisations,
- To contribute to and advance personnel policies at Swedish companies and organizations through research on management/leadership,
- To communicate research results in order to contribute to balanced and sustainable development of the working life on local, national and global levels.
- Seed money. The Centre advertises seed money, "planning grants", aiming to enable researchers to develop their applications for funding from research councils. Researchers who receive seed money are expected to attend seminars and workshops in order to disseminate research contributions.
- Doctoral student collaboration. The possibility for collaborations between academia and private and public organisations is currently being investigated. This could benefit the field of HRM, as well as the exchange of knowledge between academia and private and public organisations.
Activites
- Seminars and workshops
The centre organises a number of seminars, webinars and workshops on HRM related topics. The seminars has grown to be very popular among scholars and professionals and work as a meeting place on HRM for academia, private and public organisations. - International interdisciplinary conference on HRM
The centre has hosted international conferences in Gothenburg. - Sweden's first professor in HRM
In 2019, Stefan Tengblad became Sweden’s first Professor of HRM. Since then, he has been working to develop the Centre’s research environment.
Contact
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Initiators
The following organisations and individuals have been particularly involved in the creation of the Centre for Global HRM.
Academic organisations
Department of Business Administration, the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. Ola Bergström, Freddy Hällstén and Per Thilander
Department of Sociology and Work Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Jan Carle, Linda Corin, Kristina Håkansson, Annika Härenstam, Ylva Ulfsdotter Eriksson
External Relations, the School of Business, Economics and Law. Ingela Palmgren
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, IVA). Magnus Breidne, Gunn Johansson, Hampus Lindh, Kjell Svensson, Torgny Wännström
Public organisations
Region Västra Götaland, Health and Stress Medicine. Gunnar Ahlborg
Private organisations and persons
AB Volvo. Marianne Zingmark and Kjell Svensson, former personnel director
AstraZeneca. Cecilia Hallengren
HR Performance Sweden AB. Annica Fornäs
PWC. Petra Stergel
SKF. Peter Elmfeldt
The Swedish Association of HRM. Zorica Bodiroza