South Asia is distinct from other parts of Asia and the rest of the world because of its unique political, legal, economic, and socio-cultural systems. Despite this uniqueness, human resource management (HRM) practices of the countries making up this region have not been subjected to sustained examination. This study aims to examine the HRM practices in six South Asian countries including Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka by synthesizing the existing literature and to propose some directions for future research. This review suggests that HRM practices in South Asia are simultaneously converging and diverging as in other Asian countries. In addition, HRM in South Asia appears to be following the early trajectories of the more advanced industrialized Western countries. Overall, South Asian nations lag East and Southeast Asian countries in adopting contemporary Western HRM practices.

南亚因其独特的政治、法律、经济和社会文化体系而不同于亚洲其他地区和世界其他地区。尽管具有这种独特性，但该地区各国的人力资源管理 (HRM) 实践并未受到持续检验。本研究旨在通过综合现有文献来研究六个南亚国家（包括孟加拉国、印度、马尔代夫、尼泊尔、巴基斯坦和斯里兰卡）的人力资源管理实践，并为未来的研究提出一些方向。这篇评论表明，南亚的人力资源管理实践与其他亚洲国家一样，同时趋同和分化。此外，南亚的人力资源管理似乎遵循了更先进的西方工业化国家的早期轨迹。全面的，