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Sumathi V Selvaretnam |
Mon, 03 Oct 2011
China is a hot-bed for foreign companies who want to make their mark in Asia. Yet, MNCs are losing favour as employers of choice, with more graduates being lured away by state-owned companies. HRM examines the unique HR challenges in this burgeoning talent market
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HRM,Paul Howell |
Mon, 06 Jul 2009
Take more than one billion people. Add a centralised Government with strict rules on employment and retrenchment. Stir in a severe reduction in economic growth and you have the People's Republic of China in 2009. HRM investigates just how HR departments are coping
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Mon, 01 Oct 2007
As one of the largest countries in Europe, making up one-fifth of the continent's total population and ranking as the sixth largest economy in the world, France is steadily advancing on the back of a usually strong economy.
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HRM |
Wed, 01 Aug 2007
Today, most of the Gulf States are implementing a workforce nationalisation policy, whereby organisations (both in the public and private sectors) are encouraged to reserve some positions for nationals, or at least give preference to nationals in the hiring process.
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Wed, 01 Aug 2007
Few countries in history have experienced, in less than four decades, such a huge shift in income and development comparable to that of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the last part of the twentieth century.
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007
Sweden's long-successful economic formula of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment, and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn. However, fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007
The Indonesian economy has certainly been a rollercoaster of highs and lows over the past three decades, with continued political instability and the devastation of the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 being just two of the clouds over the country's development.
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Fri, 01 Jun 2007
Like most developed nations, Germany is facing a significant skills shortage. HRM finds out that the problem has been exacerbated by an ageing population and strict migration policies, which limit the flow of international workers to the country.
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