Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the extent to which Indian insurance companies have adapted socially responsible reporting practices, HR disclosures and also to identify areas of corporate social reporting and HR disclosures. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts...

Purpose – As companies face an ever wider range of challenges, there is growing adoption of CSR initiatives to aid company success. The business case for CSR investigates the potential for economic value in socially oriented company actions. This paper aims to examine one key CSR initiative,...

Purpose Talent management is a twenty-first-century concern. Attracting talented individuals to organizations is an important source for firm competitive advantage. Building on signaling theory, this paper proposes that corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be an important tool for talent...

Endeavours to show that human resource managers (HRM) should be involved in business strategy and should be more ‘business‐oriented’. Acknowledges that there is a tendency to see HRM in just two forms ‐ the ‘hard line’ and the ‘soft’ approach — the first built around the belief...

Argues that staff groups use their expertise to consolidate, control and centralize power — becoming involved in an unsatisfactory cycle of doing what they think will be best. Previously, staff groups justified themselves by listing activities — rather than by specifying the value they...

Proclaims that many in the USA see the Single European Market as a unifying force that will obviate the need to manage people according to their country — others see Europe as irrevocably fragmented by cultural divisions, states both views are simplistic. Gives four forces of diversity:...

Spotlights Hewlett‐Packard (HP), the US company venerated as a leader in getting the best from its people. Looks at HP's beginnings and how they have coped with business life from its policy to give line managers fair chances to do their best in all spheres of the company. Shows how human...

Looks at the millennium bug with regard to the human resources facility. Ponders whether some highly skilled staff will try to move jobs ‐ especially if the staff are poached by other companies ‐ as the IT shortage grips. Looks at morale and motivation and training plus effects on individual...