This book is a concise guide to the most important facts, theories and ideas that more and more managers are turning to for insight into how to run their business. Human Resource Management: The Key Concepts is closely tailored to students needs whilst its relevance to the wider social context makes it useful for practitioners also.

It covers:

• employee relations
• emerging issues in HR
• employee rewards
• employee resourcing.

Each concept is defined and dicussed with regards to it's origin, it's fit into the overall...

First published in 1998, this volume is based upon the files of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System plus extensive interviews with the Commissioners, cabinet ministers, MPs and officials, as well as leaders of the principal pressure groups. It seeks to place this highly important change in context, reviewing both the long-term trends and shorter term considerations which led to the adoption of MMP, as well as the immediate consequences It is an axiom of political science that whatever promises political parties may make about electoral reform, as governments they do not kick away the...