This book shows the ways human resource management can make useful contributions to strategic thinking and ethical decision-making in commerce, the public sector and not-for-profit organizations. It demonstrates the importance of thinking for the long term.

This wide-ranging review of human resources management (HRM) in Asia draws attention to issues which are substantially different from those which a Western-trained manager or student would expect. Intra-regional issues are examined and, in an unusual approach, topics are organised thematically, rather than by the more typical country-by-country approach.

• Considers the influences on HRM, including the political, economic and social contexts and expectations
• Discusses organisational behaviour impacts on HRM
• Review of HRM in Asia with topics and practices organised...

This volume intends to present an alternative model of smart power that, when successfully implemented, harnesses the efforts of all to contribute to organizational success.