Human Resource Management in a Business Context
3rd edition

by Alan Price

Human Resource Management in a Business Context provides an international focus on the theory and practice of people management. A thorough and comprehensive overview of all the key aspects of HRM, including case studies, articles from HRM Guide and other sources, key concepts, review questions and problems for discussion and analysis.
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HRM Guide Australia

HRM Guide Canada

HRM Guide NZ

HRM Guide UK

HRM Guide USA

Introduction Overview of HRM Guide

HRM Guide Updates Latest updates on the HRM Guide websites

Jobs and Careers Advice, job postings and leads

HRM Topics Hundreds of pages of information, updates and links to articles

HR Directory Links to HR service providers

HR News Releases Announcements, news, reports

  The state and intervention

Should government take a strong hand in the use of a country's human resources?

East Asian economies have been guided by interventionist governments. In other countries the trend has been has been in the opposite direction. With the collapse of the communist command economies in eastern Europe and the predominance of New Right ideology in English-speaking countries,state-ownership has gone out of fashion. In the UK, and even more so in New Zealand, the government further withdrew from many areas of economic regulation. The faith in the virtue of market forces was such that when significant areas of the economy collapsed or were taken over by foreign interests, government reaction was minimal (...)

  This article gives an indication of how a government (in this case, the New Brunswick provincial government in Canada) presents the merits of subsidizing Illinois-based Virtual-Agent Services (VAS) which has established a customer-contact centre in the Town of Nackawic, its 15th centre in the province. Boost For New Brunswick Contact-Centre Industry

  Minimum wages

Should governments set minimum wages? This is a key point of dispute between left- and right-wing thinkers. Yet minimum wage legislation has been adopted by governments in many developed countries. 

This page on HRMGuide.co.uk gives current and historical British rates: National minimum wage increases

Minimum wages in Canada are set by ithe provincial governments. As an example see  Ontario Minimum Wage

The (US) Employment Policies Institute carries a series of relevant articles on its site: EPI

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