Preface -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Human resource management in a changing world -- The nature of human resource management -- The global context for human resource management -- Human resource management around the world -- Strategic human resource management -- Workforce planning and...

The extent to which stress at work produces a degree of psychological impairment has become a central issue in the current debate on the quality of working life. Various analyses of alienation as a result of paced assembly lines and other forms of mass production have spawned a range of possible...