Significantly revised and updated, the second edition of Smart Talent Management presents a fresh perspective on two important areas of emphasis for current research and practice: talent management (TM) and knowledge management (KM). It identifies, defines, and explores the implementation of talent management strategies aimed at facilitating effective knowledge management in an organization. A valuable hybrid, this book integrates the field of knowledge management with talent management areas of specialization focusing in particular on staffing, training, professional development, and organizational learning and change. This book identifies obstacles to talent management’s success, providing new perspectives associated with the ongoing debate on ‘inclusive’ versus ‘exclusive’ models of talent management. Taking a fresh new look at an organization’s human talent as a repository of knowledge – both tacit and explicit – the second edition of Smart Talent Management will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, practicing managers and consultants in the field of human resources.

Managing a Global Workforce examines important human resource management issues and practices in today’s global marketplace, helping current and future managers and leaders, regardless of nationality, in making effective human talent management decisions for optimal organizational performance. This fourth edition includes significant updates to reflect recent global developments affecting the management of global HRM, including the following: • The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on new work expectations/arrangements; • The Great Resignation; • AI and automation; • Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion; • Climate change; • Emerging economies; and • CSR/ethics/sustainability The new edition also includes several new opening and closing brief cases to promote applied reflection and discussion, as well as updated references to important research. With its practical, real-world emphasis, including frequent use of current examples, the text also serves as a useful resource for guiding the global workforce management and decision-making of current and future general managers and human resource practitioners. This book is essential reading for general graduate and undergraduate business students, as well as those in specialty programs in International Business and Human Resources.

Managing a Global Workforce examines important human resource management issues and practices in today’s global marketplace, helping current and future managers and leaders, regardless of nationality, in making effective human talent management decisions for optimal organizational performance. This fourth edition includes significant updates to reflect recent global developments affecting the management of global HRM, including the following: • The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on new work expectations/arrangements; • The Great Resignation; • AI and automation; • Managing diversity, equity, and inclusion; • Climate change; • Emerging economies; and • CSR/ethics/sustainability The new edition also includes several new opening and closing brief cases to promote applied reflection and discussion, as well as updated references to important research. With its practical, real-world emphasis, including frequent use of current examples, the text also serves as a useful resource for guiding the global workforce management and decision-making of current and future general managers and human resource practitioners. This book is essential reading for general graduate and undergraduate business students, as well as those in specialty programs in International Business and Human Resources.

Focusing on the love story between Jane and Rochester, the play begins as Jane arrives in 1846 to take up the post of governess to Rochester's ward, Adele, at Thornfield Hall. Jane and Rochester fall in love but their happiness is jeopardised by the discovery of the terrible secret from Rochester's past, resolved by the dramatic fire which maims Rochester. The action, contained in a single setting with one small inset scene, makes for exciting theatre.5 women, 4 men, 3 women or men

adapted from the novel by Emily Bronte Drama / Characters: 6 male, 4 female Scenery: Unit set A stunning version of the immortal Bronte novel set amid the bleak beauty of Haworth Moor, where the wild and passionate tale of Heathcliff, a stablehand and the beautiful Cathy Earnshaw is played out with all the vivid depth and intensity of ancient tragedy. A spellbinding love story brought vividly to life in this theatrical adaptation.