1. Human resource management's role in the evolving paradigm -- 2. Human resources and the competitive advantage -- 3. Human resources and leadership -- 4. The strategic role of human resource management -- 5. Managing flexible patterns of work for competitive advantage -- 6. Talent Management -- an HR challenge -- 7. Measuring human resource management within organisations -- 8. Ethical issues and challenges in human resource management -- 9. Corporate responsibility and governance: Implications for HRM -- 10. Human resource management in the electronic era -- 11. Change management and building the learning organisation -- 12. Human resource management: An international dimension -- 13. The role of human resource management in the twenty-first century.