New Challenges for European Resource Management

M. APARICIO-VALVERDE Lecturer at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain P. GUNNIGLE Professor at the College of Business, University of Limerick, Ireland U. HANEL Research assistant at Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany J. KOUBEK Professor at the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic O. NORDHAUG Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen, Denmark N. PAPALEXANDRIS Associate Professor in Human Resource Management at Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece R. SERLAVOS Professor and Associate Dean at ESADE, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain O. TREGASKIS Research Fellow at Cranfield School of Management, Bedford, UK E. VACHKOVA Professor at the International University of Sofia, Bulgaria R. VOLZ Assistant Lecturer, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany

This book breaks new ground in human resource management through focusing on specific themes written by a range of European experts drawing on a common survey.This book breaks new ground in human resource management through focusing on specific themes written by a range of European experts drawing on a common survey. As such it is a major progression from previous texts that lack a coherent, cross-national database. Representing a truly collaborative European project, it includes themes such as flexibility, training and development, industrial relations, regional aspects and the problems of organising and undertaking comparative human resource management research.