The European Human Resource Management Guide

Brewster, C.; Hegewisch, Ariane; Holden, Len; Lockhart, Terry

ISBN 10: 012133130X / ISBN 13: 9780121331306

Published by Academic Press, Incorporated, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1992

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Sound book with clean pages and clear content. Slight edgewear to dust jacket. Small pen mark on FEP.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The European Human Resource Management Guide
• Publisher: Academic Press, Incorporated, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 012133130X
• ISBN 13: 9780121331306
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business/Management

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Synopsis

This book features a comprehensive country-by-country description of human resource management infrastructure, including labor, education, workforce, pay, and conditions.

Each chapter is written in the same format, successively examining the following areas:
* Introductory overview, covering geography and culture, political system, recent history, and economic performance
* Labor markets
* Employment law
* Recruitment
* Pay and benefits
* Trade unions
* Current issues in human resource management

About the Author

Chris Brewster is Professor in International Human Resource Management at South Bank University. He has worked in the trade union movement, the civil service, as an Industrial Relations journalist and in personnel management. He has published widely in the area of international human resource management and he acts as a consultant to many international companies.

Ariane Hegewisch is a Senior Researcher in Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management. Before joining Cranfield as a founding researcher of the Price Waterhouse Cranfield Project on HRM she worked in local government on employment and labor market policies, advising companies on the development of personnel policies.

Len Holden is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Leicester Business School. His research and publishing is focussed on issues concerning both eastern and western Europe and he has extensive lecturing and consulting experience. His current areas of interest are the management of change in eastern Europe, management development and training, and employee involvement.

Terry Lockhart is Teaching Fellow in Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management and a founding researcher of the Price Waterhouse Cranfield Project on HRM in Europe. He has worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Royal Institute of International Affairs and The American University in Washington, D.C., and has extensive consulting and lecturing experience. His main area of interest is European Community Social Policy and HRM.