Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book aims to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the discipline to which we are introducing you and Part 1 puts in place the totality of HRM in six ways. First, in Chapter 1 comes the nature of HRM, a specialism which is everywhere and in everything. Chapter 2 sketches in the background of the global context within which we operate as what you do in your small corner has to make sense not only in your business but in the local, national and international situation"--