The new world of work has created unprecedented challenges for human resource practitioners. This book prompts exciting conversations on the question of: "What is the role of job evaluation". _x000D__x000D_With the developing concepts of blended work, work from anywhere and contingent workers,...

- Preface - Foreword - Executive summary - List of acronyms and abbreviations - Assessing the links between business dynamics and policy settings - Employment growth of establishments in the Brazilian economy: Results by age and size groups - The role of mergers and acquisitions in employment...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- The Oil Boom, 1901-1905 -- The Drillers, 1901-1910 -- The Other Hands, 1901-1910 -- Moving on up North, 1910-1922 -- The Panhandle: Populating Cow Country, 1919-1930 -- East Texas: Changes in the Patch, 1930-1935 -- Way Out West,...

What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? These questions are...

The Economics of Property-Casualty Insurance presents new research and findings on key aspects of the economics of the property-casualty insurance industry. The volume explores the industrial organization, regulation, financing, and taxation of this business. The first paper, on external...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Challenge and response: North American firms in East Asia -- Persistent adaptability as survival strategy for MNCs in emerging markets: The case of Nortel Networks in China -- Establishing a successful joint venture: Moore Business Forms in Japan -- Employee...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Central Theme: The Circular Flow -- Wealth versus Income -- Expectations -- The Central Bank -- Fiscal Policy and Management of Public Debt -- International Economic Relationships -- Short-Term versus Long-Term Issues...

In this careful and thorough study of a Canadian field which has been relatively untouched in recent years, Dr. Brecher records and comments on the development of monetary and fiscal thinking in Canada in the inter-war period, and its impact on public policy in the federal sphere.