Managing in a Strategic Business Context

Introduces and describes the framework in which businesses work in Britain. This title gives the reader an insight into and an understanding economics and the economy; the social structure of the UK; technology and its interface with people; globalisation and international forces; and, responsibility and business ethics.

David Farnham is professor of employment relations emeritus at the University of Portsmouth. He also holds visiting professor appointments at the Universities of Greenwich and East London and is visiting senior research fellow at the University of Glamorgan. He is chief examiner of People Management and Development standard of the CIPD and co-director of the Personnel Policies Study Group of the European Group of Public Administration, Brussels. He has been visiting fellow at the Catholic University Leuven and works professionally with colleagues globally. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. He is also the author of Employee Relations in Context (1999), and the People Management and Development Revision Guide 2005 with Paul Smith.