This book breaks new ground in human resource management through focusing on specific themes written by a range of European experts drawing on a common survey. As such it is a major progression from previous texts that lack a coherent, cross-national database. Representing a truly collaborative European project, it includes themes such as flexibility, training and development, industrial relations, regional aspects and the problems of organising and undertaking comparative human resource management research.

Human resource management is increasingly recognized as having an important "European" face. Breaking new ground by focusing on new developments through specific themes, this text represents a truly European approach written by a range of European experts drawing on a common European survey.