Against a background of continuing rapid change in Europe, the human resource function is being devolved away to line and general managers, and HR professionals are required to be more business -- orientated. With evidence such as that provided by a large survey by the European Association for...

Business Process Redesign is being presented as a new elixir of success to Western managers. Michael Earl and Bushra Khan examine it from four different perspectives -- as a phenomenon in Western business, as an emergent management technology, as a potential laboratory, and as a new idea or an...