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Bartlett, Kenneth R.; Lawler, John J.; Bae, Johngseok; Chen, Shyh-jer; Wan, David – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2002
Responses from 380 South Korean, Taiwanese, Thai, and Singaporean human resource managers in multinational and indigenous companies revealed significant differences between the two types in degree but not form or type of human resource development activity. U.S.-owned firms had higher activity levels. Strategic human resource orientation was…
Descriptors: Corporations, Employment Practices, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Personnel

Lee, Monica; Stead, Valerie – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 1998
Review of human resource development in Britain since World War II finds that cohesion of view and approach among varied stakeholders has occurred during three periods: postwar structuralism, free-market entrepreneurialism, and new Labour resocialization. At other periods, stakeholders sought different objectives and had different visions for the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Social Influences

Sambrook, Sally – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2001
Using a contingency framework, three stages in the evolution of human resource development (HRD) in the National Health Service were identified: tell (training enacted within the classical management paradigm); sell (a competence approach to development for all employees); and gel (strategic HRD linked to corporate goals and future needs).…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Human Resources

Brutus, Stephane; Derayeh, Mehrdad – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2002
Of 101 Canadian companies, 43% used multisource assessment (supervisor, peer, subordinate, and customer feedback) for performance evaluations. The process often needed adjustment due to employee resistance, lack of strategic purpose, poor instrument design, an technical problems. (Contains 37 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries, Job Performance