Surveys
Businesses in Dubai race to modernise HR
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 11/09/2007
Businesses in Dubai are rapidly modernising their HR services as average expatriate salaries soar, according to experts.
International: Call centre employment and HR practices examined
Source: European Employment Review
Date: 12/07/2007
Research published in May 2007 analyses employment and HR management in call centres in 17 countries worldwide. It finds that the widespread view of call centres as “electronic sweatshops” with low pay, poor quality of work and little collective representation of workers is not true in all countries and types of call centre.
Recruiting and employing foreign workers
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 21/02/2003
As an increasing number of employers extend their search for scarce skills further afield, we report on the main developments affecting the migration of overseas staff.
Case studies
A whole world out there: managing global HR
Source: IRS Employment Review
Date: 29/12/2006
While some of the challenges for HR professionals are common regardless of geography, effective international HR management demands a different perspective, our research finds.
Taking training to the troops
Source: Personnel Today
Date: 09/08/2005
Training officers in Iraq are delivering important basic skills in extreme circumstances - lessons that could save other soldiers' lives. Michael Millar, the first UK business journalist to visit Iraq, reports.
