Chris Brewster

Christopher John (Chris) Brewster (born 1947) is a British organizational psychologist, and Professor of International Human Resource Management at, University of Reading, in the UK; and at  in the Netherlands, known for his work in the field of human resource management.

"Human resource management in Europe", 1992
Chris Brewster, Henrik Holt Larsen, and Fons Trompenaars. "Human resource management in Europe: evidence from ten countries." International Journal of Human Resource Management 3.3 (1992): 409-434.


 * The subject of human resource management (HRM) and its development has been much contested in the literature. Most of the relevant theories originated in the United States of America. There is in the literature no distinctly “European” approach to HRM and, indeed, our knowledge of comparative HRM practices in different European states is limited.
 * p. 409


 * Human resource management (HRM) developed initially from work in the United States of America in the 1960s and 1970s and since the mid 1980s has been an ever more visible feature of the academic literature, of consultancy services and of organisational terminology; particularly in the USA and Great Britain.
 * p. 409