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Military soft power
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ISBN: 1442231297 9781442231290 1306939569 9781306939560 9781442231283 1442231289 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland

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The military has long been associated with hard power, yet it is engaged in public diplomacy as it represents the U.S. abroad and facilitates the diffusion of ideas. Military Soft Power examines one such aspect of U.S. public diplomacy: how the United States extends its influence or "soft power" worldwide through military educational exchange programs hosted by the United States' elite military schools, its war and staff colleges. The presence of international officers at U.S. military schools is substantial, yet very little is


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Employee relations : the international journal.
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ISBN: 1283071371 9786613071378 0857247808 Year: 2011 Publisher: [Bradford, UK] : Emerald,

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The HRM/performance debate, i.e. the extent to which and how HRM contributes to organisational performance, continues to rage. Employee attitudes and behaviours are seen as a critical mediating variables in this, there being much debate on how HR practices affect these attitudes and indeed, which attitudes they should seek to influence. Commitment and involvement have been identified as key to enhancing performance but recent research has suggested a need for consideration of a wider range of attitudes. Further, there has been a substantial focus on the gap between policy intentions and the reality of their enactment. This has led to calls for the examination of HR practices from an employee perspective, the investigation of their lived experiences of these practices. A number of our papers respond to this call reporting both line manager implementation of HR policies and employee perspectives on these.Current debates on pay have centred on the extent to which individualised pay systems have superseded collectively bargained pay and the effects of this, linking payment systems to skills development, how to make performance-related pay systems work and how far they are used as control mechanisms, rather than to motivate employees and provide them with genuine enhanced earnings opportunities. There is often an over-reliance on performance related pay (PRP) to motivate, despite 20 years worth of debate and very mixed evidence on its capacity to achieve this end. This e-book addresses both reward mix and PRP in attempt to move these debates on. Finally, who gets what raises questions of fairness and social legitimacy. Nowhere is this more evident than in equal pay debates. Research evidence continues to demonstrate a gender pay gap and the search goes on for mechanisms through which to address this. Job evaluation is often held up as such a mechanism although many question its capacity to support gender pay parity. An exploration of this forms the final paper in this e-book.


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Fundamentals of human resource management : managing people at work
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ISBN: 9780273713067 027371306X 9780273728634 0273728636 Year: 2009 Publisher: Harlow, England New York Prentice Hall/Financial Times

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Adopting an accessible & practical perspective on the disciplines, this book focuses on the core responsibilities of people management which every manager will have to undertake & understand.


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Human resource management.
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ISBN: 9780273732327 0273732323 Year: 2011 Publisher: Harlow Pearson

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This best selling textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to human resource management, covering all the main areas of HRM practice as well as the key skills that HR practitioners will need. The book is written from a practical perspective in a clear and engaging style. It includes full coverage of operational issues and introduces the major academic debates of relevance to the field. It is written as an introduction for students of HRM at all levels, including those on CIPD courses.


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Global Exchanges

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Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states and empires. Global Exchanges provides a wide-ranging overview of this underresearched topic, examining the scope and scale of organized exchanges around the globe through the twentieth century. In doing so it dramatically reveals the true extent of organized exchange and its essential contribution to the formation of global networks so often taken for granted today.

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