... Investigates why unions have found it so difficult to get a foothold in Japanese‐owned automobile factories in the USA. International trade Japan Recruitment Subsidiaries Trade Unions USA All the major Japanese automobile manufacturers have recently set up assembly plants...

.... But Mini Maid’s Leone Ackerly says: “It is like anything else. Individuals can turn anything around if they want to ‐ and if someone gives them a chance.” © MCB UP Limited 1997 Disadvantaged groups Equal opportunities Recruitment Social responsibility USA No doubt some of the jobs...

... in the human resources field have still not fully grasped the consequences. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Australia Employee attitudes Older employees Recruitment Training Think of Australia, and you almost automatically think of youth. The country itself is relatively young. It produces...

... security Recruitment Successful Japanese corporations traditionally provided their professional, technical and managerial employees with jobs for life. They were trained on entry in the one corporate way of doing business. Successive courses emphasized the corporate culture until it became clearly...

...Paul Honeyborne Suggests that creating and managing today′s and tomorrow′s key players consists fundamentally of three aspects. First, they have to be recruited effectively in order to provide an organization with the best possible person for the job. Second, they have to be trained and developed...

... Recruitment Searle UK Strategy Training Recent research we have carried out shows that GPs value long‐term relationships. The cost of a new representative is £50,000 in the first year. These two facts emphasize the importance of reduced turnover and increased length of service. In response, we...

...Terry Lunn To be competitive in the future, companies will need to achieve three times the productivity with only one third of the number of people. Organizations must appreciate the increases in profit and productivity that can accrue from selecting and recruiting talented performers. The system...

...Stephen King Sketches the historical interest in and development of graphology from its arcane origins and status to its rehabilitation in modern academic environments. Illustrates some of the many applications of the technique to organizational processes, like recruitment and selection and other...