Human resource management (HRM) encompasses all the processes of managing work and the organisation of employees. These processes are called HRM functions. This chapter aims to explicate HRM policies and practices in the public service in Lesotho. It describes HRM, traces its evolution, and...

This chapter provides an overview of the benefits accrued from participation in leadership education, with a focus on outcomes related to leadership, academics and education, careers, and prosocial behaviors. We also describe how leadership education can be best positioned to drive K–12 and...

This chapter investigates the interplay between immigrant diversity and innovation, emphasizing the urban and regional dimensions where these effects are most pronounced. Cities and urban areas are pivotal to the generation, diffusion, and commercialization of innovations, while also serving as...

This chapter briefly reviews the core features of the canonical New Keynesian DSGE model with a focus on the price and wage Phillips curves. We estimate the model on recent data samples for the United States and the euro area and discuss the determinants of inflation and its interaction with...

The prosperity of commercial innovation stimulates consumers’ diversified demands, which in turn poses a greater challenge to commercial innovation. However, there is a distance between the innovator and the user of the producer's innovation, which results in the diversified demands of...

Public sector entrepreneurship (PSE) is often perceived as an effective means of mitigating endemic instability initiated by a 2008 economic crisis and exacerbated by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. The key to mitigation is PSE's capacity to exploit opportunities while still being bound by a moral...