Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction / Pieper, Rüdiger -- Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy / Staehle, Wolfgang H. -- Part I. Human Resource Management in the Western World -- Human Resource Management in the U.S.- Celebration of its Centenary / Springer, Beverly / Springer, Stephen -- Human Resource Management in Italy / Hinterhuber, Hans H. / Stumpf, Monika -- Human Resource Management in France / Rojot, Jacques -- Human Resource Management in the Federal Republic of Germany / Conrad, Peter / Pieper, Rüdiger -- Part II. Key Problems of Human Resource Management in Socialist Countries -- Human Resource Management in Yugoslavia: Problems and Perspectives / Purg, Danica -- Human Resource Management in Czechoslovakia - Management Development as the Key Issue / Landa, Ondrej -- Human Resource Management in the German Democratic Republic: Problems of Availability and the Use of Manpower Potential in the Sphere of the High Qualification Spectrum in a Retrospective View / Meyer, Hansgünter -- Part III. Human Resource Management in Asian Countries -- Human Resource Management in China: Recent Trends / Zhong-Ming, Wang -- Human Resource Management in Japan / Takahashi, Yoshiaki -- Part IV. Human Resource Management and Multinational Companies -- Strategie Human Resource Management: A Global Perspective / Adler, Nancy J. / Ghadar, Faribarz -- Human Resource Management in |