Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Human Resource Management and Corporate Strategy -- Part I. Human Resource Management in the Western World -- Human Resource Management in the U.S.- Celebration of its Centenary -- Human Resource Management in Italy -- Human Resource Management in France -- Human Resource Management in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Part II. Key Problems of Human Resource Management in Socialist Countries -- Human Resource Management in Yugoslavia: Problems and Perspectives -- Human Resource Management in Czechoslovakia – Management Development as the Key Issue -- Human Resource Management in the German Democratic Republic: Problems of Availability and the Use of Manpower Potential in the Sphere of the High Qualification Spectrum in a Retrospective View -- Part III. Human Resource Management in Asian Countries -- Human Resource Management in China: Recent Trends -- Human Resource Management in Japan -- Part IV. Human Resource Management and Multinational Companies -- Strategie Human Resource Management: A Global Perspective -- Human Resource Management in Multinational and Internationally Operating Companies -- About the Authors -- 287-288