The ability to attract and retain talent is rapidly becoming one of the key issues for human resource managers and their organisations across the globe. This article explores some of the strategies and techniques that organisations are using to cope with this issue and presents the findings of...

Current debate in the area of human resource management is focusing on explanatory links between certain HRM practices and organisational performance, asking such questions as: what are the key HR activities that increase organisational performance? Jean-Marie Hiltrop of InterCultural...

The psychological contract -- what employees and employers want and expect from each other -- has been changing dramatically in recent years. As a result of all sorts of pressures and trends on both sides, such characteristics of corporate employment as stability, permanence, predictability,...

Jean-Marie Hiltrop considers the economic, demographic and technological changes that are currently affecting European organization, paying particular attention to the European employment scene. He then analyses the implications for human resource management, highlighting the...

This article by Jean-Marie Hiltrop, considers some of the models which have studied the link between HRM and organisational performance. As yet, there is little real evidence, but it is growing and indicates that corporate HRM policies and practices - including 'best' practices - are associated...

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...

As organisations demand much more from their employees as a result from external pressures, the role of managers in the future will have to change. Jean-Marie Hiltrop explores the implications for future managers which include more stress, new career perspectives, new skills and at least four...