Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Memoirs from a Professional Twin Brother -- PART I HRD and OD -- 1 My professional journey in HRD: Some reflections -- 2 Toward creative HR -- 3 Some tradeoffs and trade secrets from the diary of...

Global Trends in Human Resource Management draws on twenty years of data collected by the Center for Effective Organizations to chart the changing nature of HR practice, and show how it can meet the demands of an evolving global marketplace.

" For decades, jobs with good pay and decent benefits in service, manufacturing, and retail have gone overseas, eviscerating America's middle class and setting off a chain reaction of problems for the country as a whole. Up until now, defenders of the new system have argued that American...