People management will be the biggest challenge for companies in the next 10 years according to EIU/SHRM survey. There are different scenarios for future work, which are influenced by economic, technological, environmental, institutional and demographic factors. This paper analysed the effect of...

In this introduction, we look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. We start with an overview of the countries involved, ranging from the hugely populated China to the city-State of Singapore, proposing three categories of economies and the people-management systems,...