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Five years into World Trade Organization membership, how is China’s system of people-management adaprting to the changing world? This edited book provides an up-to-date, state-of-the-art…

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Since the early 1990s interest in foresight has undergone one of its periodic resurgences and has led to a rapid growth in formal foresight studies…

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Compensation is a systematic approach to providing monetary value and other benefits to employees in exchange for their work and service. But pay and conditions…

Latin America today presents a dynamic but challenging business landscape. Although foreign investment in the region has risen, Asia’s increasing role in the global economy…

The European Union is expanding. Wide cultural, political and economic differences within the Union have a significant impact on the management of human resources, so…