Yongsun Paik

Charles Vance

This comprehensive text provides balanced and contemporary coverage of human resource management in the international marketplace. Directed at future general managers and international executives, rather than HR specialists, it is designed to help students as well as professionals recognize the critical human resource issues underlying the cultural and economic challenges they face. The book will enhance their skills in making effective HR decisions to cope with business challenges and opportunities.The book's approach is truly global in nature, not just focused on expatriates from the home country. The authors also recognize contemporary trends in the global business arena, including the growing use of contingent workers, strategic alliances, and offshore outsourcing arrangements, and the need to have an active influence on (if not manage directly) the workforce in these new organizational relationships.The text's practical, real-world emphasis is enhanced by student friendly tools in each chapter, including an opening case scenario to attract interest and emphasize topic importance; two additional end-of-chapter short cases to promote class discussion; Global Workforce Challenge vignettes; a profile of an international professional working in each chapter topic area; and recommended online resources for further reference and details.

Challenges and Opportunities in International Human Resource Management

Managing a Global Workforce

This dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's classic 19th-century novel focuses on Jane Eyre's love affair with Rochester. All the action is contained within a single setting, with a small inset scene, providing opportunities for a mixed cast to play 11 characters.

Jane Eyre

adapted from the novel by Emily Bronte Drama / Characters: 6 male, 4 female Scenery: Unit set A stunning version of the immortal Bronte novel set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, where the wild and passionate tale of Heathcliff, a stablehand and the beautiful Cathy Earnshaw is played out with all the vivid depth and intensity of ancient tragedy. A spellbinding love story brought vividly to life in this theatrical adaptation.

Charles Vance

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