International Journal of

HUMAN
RESOURCES
DEVELOPMENT
AND
MANAGEMENT
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Scope of the Journal
IJHRDM is established to cover all issues that arise when dealing with the most
important of all resources - the human resource. This includes issues that are
related to their growth and development as a tool in the workplace (e.g. skill training
and proficiency enhancement) and in managing them effectively as a resource. The
workplace is defined very broadly - it could be in a manufacturing setting or in a
service setting in a changing and dynamic global environment. IJHRDM provides a
refereed and authoritative source of information on aspects of human resources
development and management, in manufacturing and services enterprises in a
changing and dynamic global environment.

Subject coverage:
Policy initiatives
Worker rights, benefits and responsibilities
Employee-management relations
Strategic planning and allocation
Education and training
Recruitment and work practices
Professional development and leadership
Cultural, cross-cultural and gender issues
Role of the unions and their impact on
organisational productivity and worker
satisfaction
Worker employability and transferability of
skills International Journal of
Wage and incentive aspects of employment HUMAN
Worker retirement issues
RESOURCES
Impact of technology on human resources
practices
DEVELOPMENT
Employees as a source of innovation and AND
creation MANAGEMENT

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Members of the Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief Prof. Cornelius Herstatt
Dr. M.A. Dorgham Technische Universitt Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH),
International Centre for Technology and Germany
Management, UK
Prof. Ravi Jain
Associate Editors University of the Pacific, USA
Prof. Soon Beng Chew
Nanyang Technological University, Prof. Jyh-Jer Roger Ko
Singapore National Taiwan University,
Taiwan
Prof. Rosalind Chew
Nanyang Technological University, Prof. Dr. Hermann Laleben
Singapore Hochschule Reutlingen,
Germany
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Guettel
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Dr. Walter H. Plosila
Austria Battelle Memorial Institute,
USA
Prof. Dominique Jolly
CERAM Sophia Antipolis, Prof. Andrew D. F. Price
France Loughborough University,
UK
Prof. Dr. Jan N. Streumer
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences/Edutec, Dr. Valerie Rice
The Netherlands AMEDD Center and School,
USA
Editorial Board
Prof. Shihab S. Asfour Mr. S.K. Saxena
University of Miami, Directorate General Factory Advice Service &
USA Labor Institutes,
India
Dr. Christoph F. Buechtemann
International Centre for Research on Innovation Prof. Stephen Shelton
and Society, University of New Mexico,
USA USA

Prof. Martin Carnoy Dr. Anand Teltumbde

Stanford University, USA Petronet India Limited,
India
Dr. Robert-Leigh Compton
University of Newcastle, Australia Prof. Shaun Tyson
Cranfield University, UK
Dr. Dimitri Corpakis
European Commission, Isabell Welpe
Belgium Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt,
Germany
Prof. Robert D. Dryden
Portland State University, Dr. Yoshiyasu Yamada
USA Tokyo University of Science,
Japan
Prof. Kamal Fatehi
Kennesaw State University, Prof. Robert Yearout
USA University of North Carolina,
USA

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Sample Content of
IJHRDM
VOL. 8(1/2), 2008
Banning the Bahn: transport infrastructure
effects on Austrian cluster firms
Edward M. Bergman, Gunther Maier, Patrick
Lehner
Knowledge management processes and
innovation: an empirical analysis of firms in
software cluster
Xiaoke Wei, Fenghua Xie
Learning levels of collective learning
mechanism in industrial cluster
Mo Li, Hu Haoyi, Sun Wenbin
The flowchart model of cluster policy: the
automobile industry clusters in China
Akifumi Kuchiki
An empirical study on the relation between
characteristics of enterprise Top
Management Team and strategic decision in
industry cluster of China
Jiajun Gu
Human resource management and
employment practices in the Hong Kong
power supply industry: the challenge of
industrial de-regulation and business re-
structuring
Sek Hong Ng, Olivia Ip

The completed profile and its variables for
General Manager's successor selection
Shunsheng Yang
The influence of industrial clusters'
character on the growth of talents: an
empirical research in four industrial clusters
in China
Qingxiong Weng
Functional rule on attraction of the talents
by elements of the industrial cluster
environment
Wang Chongxi
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