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ÔThis book focuses on the challenges facing MNCs who are Òplaying away from homeÓ in different institutional frameworks and complex cultural contexts. In each chapter the authors provide a clear exposition and critique of the current literature followed by a sophisticated case study that highlights the key challenges and dilemmas faced by MNCs in dynamic environments. Through a combination of solid theory and rich cases this book provides a fresh and important contribution to the discipline and will be invaluable for academics, postgraduate students and practitioners.Õ Ð Pauline Stanton, Victoria University Melbourne, Australia ÔThe textbook addresses crucial challenges facing managers...
This timely and innovative book focuses on budgeting control and ongoing Beyond Budgeting trends and its consequences for the organization.
The increasing number of cross-border alliances and mergers both within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world have made it imperative for students of management to have a thorough understanding of the European context for human resource management (HRM). This book enables managers and students to become "fluent" in the many various environments, approaches and practices that exist across Europe for managing human resources. The text employs comprehensive comparable representative data collected longitudinally during the last decade and it also draws directly on the expertise of leading HRM scholars. Entirely fresh analyses of HRM in Europe, based on new and hitherto unpublished data are presented and this analysis is critically important for students, researchers and also for practitioners. The book is divided into three parts: concepts and theoretical issues , trends in relation to these issues and comparisons between individual countries, and summaries and conclusions on the issue of convergence and divergence.
This informative text provides an analysis of the ten most important themes in European HRM. Written and edited by leading authorities, it takes a thematic yet critical approach, allowing synthesis of theory and practice.
This book is aimed at students, teachers and researchers, and those responsible for the ethical and sustainable management of organizations; it helps to identify, understand and expand on some relevant aspects related to ethical management of companies and institutions. As a whole, it is a work that invites reflection and defines the main deontological and ethical problems which organizations face in a globalized, technological and interconnected world. The book sets out to facilitate the analysis of fundamental ethical issues that underlie business decision making. It is also a detailed manual on how sustainability should be managed today, addressing the latest sustainability trends, which encompass comprehensive environmental, social and economic plans. In short, this book prepares readers to develop an exhaustive sustainability master plan.
The essential book for developing and learning about European HR practice.
Provides an understanding of how HRM policies and practices differ across countries and how the development of management practice may be affected by different institutional and cultural contexts. Containing contributions from a range of well-respected HRM scholars across the world, this collection is based upon data from a unique research project.
This far-reaching volume reasserts the significance of class and gender for understanding socioeconomic conditions. The contributors urge a nuanced approach that focuses on the specific institutional contexts of class-gender relations in various advanced industrial nations.
This collection draws on books, journals, reports and historical papers to map the vast field of education for adults. This collection will make many major works more readily available.