Human resource management is the strategic approach to management of an organization's most valuable asset—its people. It covers the recruitment, management, and direction of people who work for the organization and deals with employee compensation and benefits, hiring and training, performance management, organization development, safety and wellness, and organizational communication. This new collection covers a broad array of topics on human resources management, including new emphasis on corporate social commitment, management practices that are essential for retaining effective professionals, financial rewards to stimulate longer workforce participation, entrepreneurial leadership, examination of leadership styles in different countries, dealing with organizational change, teamwork and employee resistance, integrating human resources aspects with corporate goals, and more. This book provides an interesting group of chapters that shed light on a variety of international human resources management styles and practices. The competitive nature of twenty-first-century global commerce requires that businesses be managed strategically by managers who are knowledgeable in the principles of the field. The efficient, nonexploitive use of human resources is essential to building successful businesses around the world.

CONTENTS: Corporate Social Responsibility:The Key Role of Human Resource Management • Assessment of Human Resources Management Practices in Lebanese Hospitals • Turnover and Heterogenity in Top Management Networks:A Demographic Analysis of Two Swedish Business Groups • Change Management:Getting a Tuned Up Organization • Challenges at Work and Financial Rewards to Stimulate Longer Workforce Participation • The Effects of Human Resource Practices on Firm Growth • Common Factors Between Swedish and Chinese Entrepreneurial Leadership Styles • Paris on the Mekong:Using the Aid Effectiveness Agenda to Support Human Resources for Health in the Lao People's Democratic Republic • Strategic Human Resources Management:Aligning With the Mission • What Impact Do Global Health Initiatives Have on Human Resources for Antiretroviral Treatment Roll-Out? A Qualitative Policy Analysis of Implementation Processes in Zambia • Biting the Hand that Feeds:Social Identity and Resistance in Restaurant Teams • Looking to the Future:Human Resource Competencies • Index

Business operations are those ongoing and recurring activities involved in the running of a business that deal with the production of goods and services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring efficient and effective methods and processes. This book looks at a selection of important business management techniques from a variety of countries and types of businesses. It discusses interorganizational information systems development, organizational performance management, activity-based cost systems, financial decision-making processes, teleworking (or telecommuting), customer-focused process improvement, the communicative nature of innovation processes and the impact of this on innovation management, a model of ebusiness systems that allows for emergent factors, and much more.

CONTENTS: Managing Innovation as Communicative Processes:A Case of Subsea Technology R&D • Deferred Action:Theoretical Model of Process Architecture Design for Emergent Business Processes • The Survey of the Political Costs and Firm Size: Case from Iran • An Evaluation of Inter-Organisational Information Systems Development on Business Partnership Relations • Rational Exuberance and Revival of the U.S. Automotive Sector • A Neuroanatomical Approach to Exploring Organizational Performance • Neural Networks and Their Application to Finance • Implementing the Activity Base Costing System:A Case Study on Dakota Office Supply • Profitability of the Greek Football Clubs:Implications for Financial Decisions Making • Teleworking in United Arab Emirates (UAE):An Empirical Study of Influencing Factors, Facilitators, and Inhibitors • The Role that Personality and Motivation Play in Consumer Behaviour:A Case Study on HSBC • Mobile Technology and the Value Chain:Participants, Activities, and Value Creation • Cost Effectiveness of Community-Based Therapeutic Care for Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Zambia:Decision Tree Model • Integrating Chronic Care and Business Strategies in the Safety Net:A Practice Coaching Manual • Customer Complaints as a Source of Customer-Focused Process Improvement:A Constructive Case Study • Index

Journalism: Theory and Practice presents a short history of journalism and focuses on the many important issues facing the media today, including bridging the divide between science and journalism; issues in and public perception of war reporting; the ethics and procedures of media coverage of natural disasters; the current difficulties facing U.S. newspapers; an in-depth analysis of how news organizations report new medical treatments, tests, products, and procedures; and more. The book also includes a history of and tribute to Edward R. Murrow, a pioneer in the field of television news broadcasting, including a report of how Murrow used the new media of his time, first radio, and then television. A comprehensive overview of running a government press office is presented as well.

CONTENTS: A Responsible Press Office:An Insider's Guide • Handbook of Independent Journalism • Edward R. Murrow:A Life • Freedom's Watchdog:The Press in the U.S • Murrow:Founder of American Broadcast Journalism • Harnessing "New" Media for Quality Reporting • "See It Now":Murrow vs. McCarthy • Making the News:Jobs in TV Journalism • Bridging the Divide Between Science and Journalism • Reporting Iraqi Civilian Fatalities in a Time of War • Should Health Professionals Allow Reporters Inside Hospitals and Clinics at Times of Natural Disasters? •How Do U.S. Journalists Cover Treatments, Tests, Products, and Procedures? An Evaluation of 500 Stories • Effective Media Communication of Disasters:Pressing Problems and Recommendations • Research about the Mass Media and Disaster:Never (Well Hardly Ever) the Twain Shall Meet • The U.S. Newspaper Industry in Transition • Index