Human Resource Issues
Of the European Union
This important new book
addresses dilemmas and developments of human resource issues in the European Union.
Detailed attention is given
to consideration of the way in which the EU works and to some of the relevant debates and
issues.
Subjects covered include:
unemployment;
vocational education and
training;
freedom of movement and
labour mobility;
health and safety;
equality between the sexes
and racialdiscrimination;
employee participation.
The author locates each of
these themes in an appropriate theoretical context, outlines the initiatives that have
been taken and critically appraises them.
About the author;
Mike Leat is a Senior
Lecturer at Plymouth University Business School. Prior to his appointment at Plymouth he
worked for the Ckxmnission on Industrial Relations, ACAS and ill the Film, Television and
Financial Services sectors.
Human Resource Issues of the
European Union:
features objectives, fed
Suggestions for further reading;
includes comparative
information and data which will be attractive to students needing data on other European
Union countries;
contains up-to-date coverage
of the subject including changes since the UK May 1997 election and the Amsterdam Treaty
Summit of June 1997;
is concerned with the issues
that the Union itself has identified as critical ^ rather than HR issues in general;
is written in an accessible
style and has the significant advantage for the reader of providing a comprehensive
treatment of all the above in the one volume.
384 pages