The voluntary sector in Scotland, as across the globe, is becoming increasingly business like. Resultantly, there is an increasing demand for graduates to work in business and support functions. In Scotland, however, despite an oversupply of graduates in the labor market, the voluntary sector...

Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). Indeed, it is the largest private sector employer in the UK, employing three million workers, or 1 in 10 of the working population. Retail though...

The increase in influential, non-American companies in the hotel industry is discussed. The paper considers whether this was caused a decline of American hegemony of the international hotel industry. Recent trends that have led to a belief in declining American influence are discussed. A case...

Companies increasingly seek solutions to the corporate/local dichotomies perceived to be a feature of more traditional approaches to managing across national boundaries. At the human resource level, the rhetoric of transnationalism emphasizes integration being achieved through 'soft' mechanisms,...

If, as Adam Smith once famously suggested, Britain was a nation of shopkeepers then it is now a nation of shopworkers. Retail is now a significant part of the UK economy, accounting for £256 billion in sales and one-third of all consumer spending (Skillsmart, 2007). It is the largest private...

In the style labour market, employers require a matrix of skills - technical, social and aesthetic. The first is provided ,,in-house”, the middle and thedast filtered into companies through recruitment and selection processes. It is the middle and last skills that are encompassed by the term...