This paper is concerned with people management practices in companies in Malaysia. It examines the development of the … main practice areas of the management of human resources (HR), the HR management (HRM) function and to what extent … management generally would be better characterized as still more like ‘personnel’, than ‘HR’, management. Any acceptance and …

In this introduction, we look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. We start with an … categories of economies and the people-management systems, namely the ‘developed’, the ‘developing’ and the ‘transitional’. After …