Human Resource Management is designed for the managers of tomorrow who are increasingly required to undertake aspects of HRM as part of their day-to-day duties. It is an ideal text for MBA students taking a first HRM course or module and Masters students on general business and management programmes. Comprehensive but extremely accessible, this textbook draws on the latest academic research and provides students with everything they need to know about HR theory and practice. Using case studies and practical examples, it places HR firmly in a managerial context giving students the real-world perspective needed to succeed in people management. In this innovative book, Henderson demonstrates an understanding of busy MBA students¿ needs and time limitations, avoiding too much emphasis on historical detail and providing plenty of support material, including tutor and student websites.

Most projects have many stakeholders with different aspirations from the project—the customer demands quality, the investor wants fair return on investments, the project manager wants timely completion of the project. All of these sometimes conflicting objectives have to be satisfied at the same time.

With the proper management and control mechanism, a holistic view of how a project is running can be obtained and its likely performance in future determined. This is to avoid a drain of resources in projects which are no longer viable, or to continue such projects which show promise of completion.

Revolution in Project Management reviews the steps in organising and managing projects, from how to build a realistic schedule to how to measure both success and failure. India’s successful Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) is provided as a case study.

Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are finding major applications in the government sector today—enabling easy and transparent flow of information between various government departments; and between the government and the citizens of the country. The Indian government, both at the state and the central level have drawn up impressive e-governance plans to improve services to the common man. But how effective have these e-governance projects been? In 2003, the Computer Society of India (CSI) with support from Nihilent Technologies instituted the e-Governance Awards in the year 2003 with the prime objective of evaluating these projects, and since then, a plethora of information has been made available on implementation problems faced by various organizations, and possible solutions.

The articles included in this compendium have been collected from project implementers working on different e-governance projects in the country and include implementation of ICT initiatives this year (2006–07). The information was updated on October 1, 2007 to ensure that the latest details on these important projects are available to researchers as well as implementers of e-governance. The book also contains a detailed project assessment methodology based on the result-and-enabler approach adopted for the first time on projects during the current year for the e-Governance Awards. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model which had been used to evaluate projects during the previous years has been further strengthened.

Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations is an engaging and accessible text specifically designed to support you, whether you are studying at undergraduate, MBA or other postgraduate level. It provides a comprehensive and topical introduction to cross-cultural social relations at work, and offers an evaluation of existing and emerging frameworks for understanding cross-cultural differences and the ways in which they affect workplace attitudes and behaviour.

This text will benefit you in your study of the subject by:
• Encouraging you to engage critically with the subject through reflective questions, plentiful examples, and other activities.
• Discussing the intercultural competencies needed by managers dealing with employees from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Pointing to implications of awareness of cultural difference for HRM strategies and policies.
• Enabling you to explore emerging alternative approaches to the subject area and to gain insight into impact of the cultural and non-cultural factors on a range of topics.
• Applying theories and models to a 21st century context including coverage of ‘new’ organisational forms such as networked and virtual organisations.

Today, information and communications technologies are being used by governments to deliver services to citizens at convenient geographical locations. The objective is to make the services more transparent, improve their reach and reduce response time as well as cost. While some of these e-governance projects have been successful, there have been issues with the implementation and sustenance of many other projects. This book is a selection of case studies of a few of the on-going e-governance projects entered for the CSI–Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2005–2006. It is hoped that this compilation will help in sharing valuable information on successful models, evaluation of models and potential implementation issues that need to be addressed in large e-governance projects.

India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It has become both a source and destination of foreign direct investment and portfolio investment. This decade has seen the emergence of Indian multinationals; financial integration has increased, Indian financial markets have become more volatile, and the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) has replaced the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). These are some of the reasons why International Finance is of relevance to management students. This book gives a perspective of exchange rate risk management, the working of the foreign exchange market and its institutional framework, and guidelines governing the Indian foreign exchange market. It is designed to meet the curricular requirements of a postgraduate course.