Synopsis
A comprehensive, authoritative and practical guide to the complete spectrum of Human Resource Management. This highly topical book deals with currently emerging changes in the role of the human resource department. Key issues are highlighted and trends in current thinking are explored. Clearly stated objectives, practical case studies and examination questions top and tail each chapter.
The book is useful for MBA students, final year business studies and management, and Higher National Diploma (HND) students. It will also be of great value to managers keen to come to grips with the most effective methods of managing people at work.
The book was developed at the University of Bradford Management Centre and forms part of the Bradford MBA course. Each of the contributors has experience not only of teaching in an academic context, but also of consultancy - working alongside managers and supporting them as they attempt to resolve 'real-life' problems.
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Review
Among the host of books currently available on HRM, this text has distinctive merits. First, it is written by people who know what they are talking about... Each chapter is written by an expert, who really is expert. Secondly, it deals comprehensively yet succinctly with the sprawling subject that is 1990s HRM... Finally, the language is accessible yet precise...the book is pleasant to read rather than the turgid prose that characterises so many management texts -- Derek Torrington, Emeritus Professor, Manchester School of Management
Synopsis
The learning region has become an important concept among scholars, managers and policymakers. Companies are increasingly stimulated by, and dependent on, the unevenly distributed localized capabilities that enhance learning and innovation. Learning regions are a contemporary consequence of the way companies react to the global opening of markets. Despite the trends towards global integration, there is little evidence to suggest that cross-border economic activities have eliminated deep-seated differences among the advanced industrial economies. It takes generations to build national identities and establish complex national investigation systems favouring growth and prosperity also at a regional level. It takes years of hard work to amalgamate two countries' distinctive innovation systems into one, even when most formal barriers have been eroded. It can take even longer for a common cross-border regional identity to materialize. Only then can the full potential of cross-border synergy begin to be realized. The aim of this book is to investigate the regional linkages between learning and competitiveness using the North European Oresund Region as an illustrative case.
In the year 2000, the 16 kilometre long bridge and tunnel will be completed between the cities of Copenhagen in Denmark and Malmo in Sweden, significantly improving the accessibility within an area of thousands of companies and a concentration of research facilities, technological and commercial expertise and educational institutions."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
