Human Resource Management or New Sources of Development Finance

Human Resource Management: An Introduction

Author: Trevor Bolton

From planning human resources through recruitment and selection, training and development, appraisal and reward management to welfare and redundancy, this introductory text follows the natural cycle of HRM activity in a way that is intuitive and accessible to the student. The international and European content gives a broader context for the student than any other text in the field, and makes it essential reading for those taking BA business studies, and other management degree programmes and profession Diploma and Certificate courses in peresonnel and human resource management.

Table of Contents:

	List Figures
	List of Tables
	Preface: How to Use This Book
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
2	Planning Human Resources	11
3	Recruitment: The Initial Stages	32
4	The Recruitment Media	45
5	Selection	59
6	Equal Opportunities	75
7	The New Employee	91
8	Training and Development: The United Kingdom Experience	103
9	Training and Development Methods	120
10	Job Evaluation	137
11	From Performance Appraisal to Performance Management	148
12	Reward Management	167
13	Restructuring the Workforce: Corporate Downsizing	186
14	Employee Welfare	200
15	The Influence of Europe: Implications for UK Human Resource Managers	218
16	The Management of Human Resources: Some European Comparisons - Germany and Spain	240
17	Training in Europe: A Brief Consideration	258
18	Conclusion	272
19	Appendix: The Influence of the European Union	276
	Index	289

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New Sources of Development Finance

Author: A B Atkinson

As their Millennium Development Goals, world leaders have pledged by 2015 to halve the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, to reduce child mortality, to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to halve the number of people without safe drinking water. Achieving these goals requires a large increase in the flow of financial resources to developing countries - double the present development assistance from abroad.
Examining innovative ways to secure these resources, this book sets out a framework for the economic analysis of different sources of funding, applying the tools of modern public economics to identify the key issues. It examines the role of new sources of overseas aid, considers the fiscal architecture and the lessons that can be learned from federal fiscal systems, asks how far increased transfers impose a burden on donors, and investigates how far one can separate raising resources from their use.
In turn, the book examines global environmental taxes (such as a carbon tax) the taxation of currency transactions (the Tobin tax), a development-focused allocation of Special Drawing Rights by the IMF, the UK Government proposal for an International Finance Facility, increased private donations for development purposes, a global lottery (or premium bond), and increased remittances by emigrants. In each case, it considers the feasibility of the proposal and the resources that it can realistically raise. In each case, it offers new perspectives and insights into these new and controversial proposals.