Development of strategic HRM in China: an overview -- Review method and theoretical framework for evaluation -- National economic growth and strategic HRM -- Enterprise reform and strategic HRM -- Individual creativity, firm innovation and HRM -- Strategic HRM, labor relations and human rights...

National frameworks and the gender pay gap in Italy, Poland and the UK: comparing oranges with apples? / Hazel Conley, Alberto Mattei, Urszula Torbus, Joanna Nowakowska-Malusecka -- Decentralisation and the gender pay gap in the Italian context: case studies / Donata Favaro, Nicoletta Masiero,...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Structure and patterns of employment in North-East India -- 1 Labour and the labour market in North-East India: a historical...

Cover; Endorsement; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The need for a different map of the world; Works cited; Part 1 Turbulent fields and organisation dynamics; 2 Dynamic complexity and disruption; Liquid modernity; Climate change;...

chapter 1 Can Industrial Relations Save the World? -- chapter 2 Industrial Relations Policy: Conflict & Cooperation in the Governance of Work -- chapter 3 Industrial Relations Theory: From Industrial Democracy to the Web of Rules and Back Again -- chapter 4 System, Lifeworld and Points in...

Over the past two decades, trade union activity in Batam has been heavily influenced by regional demographics, employment conditions and the prevalent political scenario. Following the end of the New Order in 1998, the single state-authorized union was fragmented, giving rise to a number of new...

Labour relations are at the heart of China's extraordinary economic rise. This growth, accompanied by internal migration, urbanisation and rising income have brought a dramatic increase in the aspirations of workers, forcing the Chinese government to restructure its relationships with both...