GROWTH AND GLOBALIZATION: EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN ASIA ARTHUR YEUNG‚ MALCOLM WARNER‚ AND CHRIS ROWLEY In this introductory note‚ we offer an overview of how human resource management in Asian countries and corporations is evolving in the face of rapid business growth and integration into the global economy and we describe how the articles in this Special Issue contribute to new knowledge and insights regarding key issues‚ challenges‚ and evolution in the field of HRM in Asia
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thing in management is to put the necessary person on the necessary place and to achieve performance of the task put before it." Sokrat INTRODUCTION Any organisation‚ any enterprise cannot become successful without management. However management as a science in such kind in which we have it now‚ has appeared not at once. As soon as people began to live in organised groups‚ the necessity of management has appeared. At the first stage where groups of people were insignificant‚ management in all
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Introduction Follett defined management as the art of getting things done through people. Managers therefore achieve organizational goals and objectives by enabling others to perform rather than performing the tasks themselves. To this end then management is not a confine of executives behind boardroom doors; on the contrary it is a practical and sometimes unconscious action that man has engaged in from his days of existence. Pre Industrial Management Techniques In its broadest possible usage
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Identify and explain the history and evolution of Personnel Management to Human Resource Management. Human Resource Management actually started with the working arrangement struck between the craftsmen and their apprentices during the pre-industrial cottage-base guild (association of artisans or merchants) system. The apprentice lived in the workshop or home of his master‚ and the master took care of his health and welfare. This practice showed the importance of selecting and training the right
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period. The latest management changes have once again disrupted stability. In July 2012‚ M&S announced widespread changes across the company‚ including a new head of general merchandise‚ style director and a new head of food. A number of external and internal factors explain these changes. External Factors Consumer spending & Competition External factors can be described as things affecting the company beyond its control. Firstly‚ the retail industry in which M&S operates has weakened
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. EARLY MANAGEMENT AND THE STUDY OF MANAGEMENT. Although great feats of human achievement such as the Egyptian pyramids‚ the Great Wall of China‚ the Colosseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India all bear testimony to skilled management in ancient times‚ the formal study of management only began late in the 19th century. The main driving force behind this development of management as a science was the transition from 19th century “entrepreneurial capitalism” to early 20th century “managerial
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society‚ have since changed however. No longer does the word “family” have a universal application in society. The supreme portrait of family is ever changing because societal values seem to evolve and diversify as time passes. Today‚ much of this evolution in the perceptions of kinship ideals can be attributed to media and advertising influences. A typical family in the 1950s would probably
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Scientific management in modern society Introduction Scientific management also known as Taylorism (Mitchan 2005) is a set of rules that govern job design in manufacturing department. Taylor(1911)‚ the pioneer of scientific management first came up with the theory in the late nineteenth century after viewing widespread inefficient work or soldiering among workers. Taylor’s promotion of time and motion study‚ production-control methods and incentive pay” (Burrell and Morgan 1979‚Littler 1982 cited
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understanding of the scope and purposes of management accounting and the concepts which underpinned it was summarized by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in a statement. Later on in 1998‚ the statement was revised and released as Management Accounting Concepts – Number 1 in the series of International Management Accounting Practice Statements. The purpose of this article is to explain the IFAC’s perspective of the change in management accounting. This can be justified by the author
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Robert H. Goddard: Robert H. Goddard is the creator the first liquid-fueled rocket that has changed the usage and abilities of modern day spacecrafts. Although‚ he wasn’t respected during his engineering process‚ Goddard still strived to follow his dream of one day taking a rocket to the moon. ("Robert Goddard"‚ 2008). Robert H. Goddard invented the first liquid-fueled rocket‚ improving upon the previous basic space crafts‚ despite the extremely negative thoughts society had on his ideas as he started
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