Convergence, Divergence or Middle of the Path: HRM Model for Oman Sami A. Khan Sultan Qaboos University, Oman The role of human resource management function is at the crossroad, and on the one hand it is facing the crisis whereas there also exists an unprecedented opportunity to redefine and refocus the HRM function to leverage its credibility in organization. In Oman, HRM is in its infancy and there is a need to strengthen its discourse and learning. The present paper attempts to understand
This essay will focus primarily on the immigrants and their struggles faced in America. As it has been noted, many immigrants who come to America seek economic opportunity. Their goals of advancing and becoming successful at times can be over turned by discrimination. As seen in the essay from literature reviews and intensive interviews, the struggles faced by American immigrants are discovered. However, the goal is to explore the various acts of discriminations and look at how some immigrants have
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University of St Andrews. He wishes to formally acknowledge: the ICAEW for its financial support of this research; Richard Macve for his early helpful comments on the paper; Adam Erusalimsky for his excellent work on collating the global data and the critiques of that data as well as for his work with Crawford Spence on making the first pass through UK Sustainability Reporting in preparation for this paper: and Crawford Spence. Jan Bebbington, Sue Gray, David Collison and colleagues at St Andrews Management
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