... In today’s increasingly competitive business world, training is gaining the same kind of status as motherhood and apple pie. But a Japan‐based multinational supermarket chain offers a more thorough and all‐embracing training programme to its Japanese graduates than to those it recruits in Hong...

... Making people redundant has become a way of life for many multinationals over the past decade. In a quest for efficiency, firms have been laying off thousands of employees ‐ and most observers expect the trend to continue. But many of the multinationals that have cut their payroll have...

... that the executive programme for middle managers aged 33‐43, is coming to fruition in many ways. The programme is multinational and multicultural. Electrolux intends to go on with the programme for the forseeable future, following its success. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Globalization Middle management...