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Hewitt Quarterly
Asia Pacific
is made possible through the combined skills and experience
of Hewitt consultants from across the Asia-Pacific region.
For further information please
contact:
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editor-hqap@hewitt.com
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Taking a time horizon approach to managing global business could well be the secret to achieving sustained growth. But it is only when total rewards enter the equation that organizations are poised for business transformation and renewal.
Businesses that set out to be global success stories invariably focus on two key goals - growing their profits, and winning over international markets. But establishing businesses across different national boundaries is one thing; managing their operations to achieve sustained growth is another.
One of the most formidable challenges confronting managers of global businesses is how to come up with a consistent approach to managing operations and growth across varied geographical regions...Read» |
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On the day before the Federal Reserve cut its discount lending rate to banks in the United States, sparking a reversal in plunging global markets sentiment, a news report by CNBC Asia noted that there was at least US$50 billion in private equity funds in Europe alone seeking |
opportunities for corporate buyouts or mergers and acquisitions (M&A)...Read» |
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In an age of outsourcing where every function of business is open to scrutiny in terms of value, cost and efficiency, the case for maintaining and developing human resources in-house needs to be made afresh.
There are no tablets of stone that say HR talent, HR departments or HR |
functions must remain in one particular framework for all time...Read» |
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| Failing to get the best out of your people in a merger situ-ation is a short cut to destroying much of |
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the value the merger was designed to create in the first place.
But how do you blend together teams of people coming from what may previously have...Read» |
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| HR issues are of growing importance in the Middle East as |
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economies founded on petro-dollars restructure and localize their traditionally expatriate-heavy work forces. Some countries are becoming financial service centers...Read» |
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| As China's economy matures, foreign and domestic companies are increasingly seeking new business oppor- |
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tunities in second and third tier cities, where markets are less saturated and start-up costs are lower...Read» |
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