Training evaluation is a bit like eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day; everyone
knows that they are supposed to do it, everyone says they are planning to do better in the …

States that in respect of organizations' attempts to devolve operational HR management to
line managers, and the reconfiguration of HR work in general, one area of HR work that has …

A paper discusses the country-of-origin factor in international management of human
resource and industrial relations issues in multinational companies (MNC). It first critically …

Over the past decade, several leading US scholars have advanced a new industrial
relations paradigm, according to which “high performance” work and human resource …

It has become widely acknowledged that, during the past decade or so, large mainstream
companies in the UK have adopted a new agenda for managing people. Relatively little is …

There is considerable debate as to the determinants of the human resource policies of
human resource management: do they reflect national institutional or cultural realities …

A research-based article reports that, on the surface, the devolution of operational personnel
activities to line managers was identified as highly desirable by personnel managers …

Recent interest in 'managing diversity'has reopened debates about forms of equality in the
workplace. Approaches to equality developed in the 1970s and 1980s have been …

There has been considerable research on the issues of board-level representation by
personnel/HR directors and senior HR managers' involvement in strategic decision making …

Over the last decade, human resource management has come to be viewed as the dominant
paradigm within which analyses of the world of work have been located. This volume …