Amazon.com description: Product Description: These cases provide a practical framework for discussing the multiplicity of pressures that are currently reshaping the competitive landscape in both the US and Europe, and for demonstrating the way that organizations on both sides of the Atlantic are trying to change long-standing approaches to them in response to these pressures. The book takes a European perspective on HRM, structured to cover the traditional HRM topics but also focusing on the major strategic issues affecting Europe, such as structural and cultural change, mergers and acquisitions.