Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: B, University of Limerick, course: MA in Business Management, language: English, abstract: In the last decade labour market shortages and recruitment difficulties have led to a more competitive and challenging recruitment market worldwide. These forces make it more important than ever for recruiting teams in organisations to be effective, efficient and creative in the search for talent. As a response, there is a shift from traditional recruiting methods to a new social recruiting approach....

'Anti-illusionism is, I suspect, only a marking of time, a phase of recuperation, in the history of the novel. The question is, what next?' (J.M. Coetzee)
This book argues that the significance of Coetzee's fiction lies in the acuity with which it both explores and develops the tradition of the novel - ranging from Cervantes, Defoe and Richardson, to Dostoevsky, Kafka and Beckett - as part of a sustained attempt to rethink the relationship between writing and politics. For Coetzee questions about the future of the novel are closely related to what it means to write after Beckett, and J.M....

Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the defining authors in the literature and culture of post-war America. Yet he has long been a polarising figure and throughout his long career he has won the disapproval of an extremely diverse range of public moralists -- including, it would seem, the Nobel Prize committee. Far from seeking to make Roth a more palatable writer, Patrick Hayes argues that Roth's interest in transgressing against the 'virtue racket', as one of his characters put it, defines his importance. Placing the vehemence and unruliness of human passions at the heart of his...