Caretakers or HR Managers

Hr Managers and Environmental Sustainability: Strategic Leaders or Passive Observers?

While many organisations have been quick to jump onboard the ‘sustainability bandwagon’ little appears to have been done to consider the role of, and effect on, the HR function and manager. In fact, organisations have tended to treat sustainability and HR in silo. This paper examines questions such as: How are HR managers defining and enacting corporate sustainability? And what is the effect of...

Caretakers and collaborators.

The Role of Culture in FDI in the PRC: Implications for HR Practitioners, and Managers

This paper examines the role that culture plays in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Using examples of inward FDI from mostly western Multinational Corporations (MNCs), the implication of Chinese culture, Transaction Cost Theory, and modes of entry are discussed. The authors suggest that the increase in, and the rate of direct FDI in the PRC (prior to the ...

Taking care of the caretakers.

orking with cancer patients for a number of years, I have met many caretakers. They have been husbands and wives, daughW ters and sons, neighbors and friends. Although it is not original with me, the concept that people are made patients by the disease of others is worthy of our attention as therapists. My cancer work served to acquaint me with the long hours, the often unacknowledged duties, t...

Human Resource Outsourcing and the HR Function: Opportunity or Threat?

of paper for T rack 1 “Management, Work and Organisation”, 15 World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association: “The New World of Work, Organisations and Employment.” 24 – 27 August 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia Human Resource Outsourcing and the HR Function: Opportunity or Threat?