Foreword - Professor Pauline Stanton, Victoria University

Chapter 1 - Strategic HRM in context: An overview

PART I: HR - Outer Context - Political, Economic, Socio-economic, Technical, Legal, Environmental

Chapter 2 - Contemporary issues in the Asia Pacific Region
Chapter 3 - Developments in employment relations in the Asia Pacific
Chapter 4 - Managing globalisation and international HRM
Chapter 5 - Sustainability and SHRM
Chapter 6 - The business case for human capital metrics
Chapter 7 - Human resource outsourcing and shared services
Chapter 8 - The transfer of HRM policies and practices in multinational companies

PART II: Inner Context - Organisational Culture, Structure, Politics/Leadership, Task-Technology, Business Outputs

Chapter 9 - Work-life management
Chapter 10 - Managing talent
Chapter 11 - An ageing workforce
Chapter 12 - Managing diversity, social inclusion and change in the workplace
Chapter 13 - Performance management of expatriates in China
Chapter 14 - The ethics of workforce drug testing and HRM

Editors:

Julia Connell, Dip RSA, Dip Ed, MA Dist (Reading), PhD (Newcastle), FAHRI, is Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. Prior to this Julia was Associate Dean Postgraduate Programs, UTS Business; Chair of Research, University of Wollongong in Dubai; Associate Dean International University of Newcastle. Julia worked in various public and private sector organisations in the UK before joining The Henley College, Oxford. Julia has co-edited four books, published over 40 refereed journal articles and co-edited nine special issue journal editions.

Julia is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute and is on the editorial board of the British journal Personnel Review. Research areas include HRM, organisational change, networks and clusters, and organisational and management effectiveness. Julia has designed and delivered a number of management programs for various organisations including the RAAF, Macquarie Generation, Newcastle City Council, Maitland City Council, Energy Australia, ANI Comsteel, The Victorian Meat Council, Ampcontrol, the NSW Police Service and QBE.

Stephen Teo, BEc (Monash), Grad Dip Bus (Monash), Grad Dip Japanese (Professional) (Swinburne) MBA (Int Bus) (Monash), PhD (QUT), is Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) at the University of Western Sydney. He previously worked in the banking and public sectors before holding academic positions at QUT, MGSM, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Technology Sydney.

Stephen is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Small Business Management, the Public Management Review, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, Career Development International, Sports Management Review, and the Deakin Business Review. He is a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute and a Senior Associate of the Australian Institute of Banking and Finance.

His research and consulting interests lie in the evaluation of HRM effectiveness, focusing on the status and influence of the HRM function in strategic decision-making processes. He has consulted for organisations such as the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change, and the Australian Defence Force.

Contributors:

Anne Bardoel and Kerry Grigg, Monash University
John Burgess, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Noelle Donnelly, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Peter J Dowling, La Trobe University
Zeenobiyah Hannif, University of Technology, Sydney
Charmine E J Härtel, University of Queensland
Rob Hecker, University of Tasmania
Peter Holland, Monash University
Ajay K Jain, Management Development Institute, India
Christina Kirsch, ChangeTrack Research
Robin Kramar and Grant Jones, MGSM, Macquarie University
Susan McGrath-Champ and Anthony Fee, University of Sydney
Chris Rowley, City University, London, UK
Carol Royal and Loretta O'Donnell, UNSW
Debi S Saini, Management Development Institute, India
Anne Vo, University of Wollongong
Peter Waring, University of Newcastle in Singapore
Jennifer Waterhouse, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Edward Wray-Bliss, University of Technology, Sydney
Xiaohua Yang, University of San Francisco, USA