Product Description: This book identifies a troublesome workplace trend: management's abuse of employees. This abuse is often of a very subtle nature, and always involves the use and misuse of the power that the manager has over the subordinate. Due to intensified competition and pressures on companies to improve performance, new stresses operate in the relationship between manager and employee, and a hostile work environment can result, allowing for a "generic" form of harassment and abuse...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of original articles by leading practitioners and researchers, this volume examines methods for human resource forecasting and planning to meet the strategic needs of the organization. Changing characteristics of the workforce and new skill demands mean that human resource planning must become an integral part of corporate strategy development and implementation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)