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Focusing on human resource management practices in the multinational multi-service providers, this text presents some complex academic research in an accessible form. This book collates and reviews, in a manner designed to be both accessible and comprehensible to the interested reader, the extensive body of academic literature which has been developed since the 1980s. In addition, it provides a perspective on human resource management issues, practices and problems based in part on interviews with senior personnel. Most suitable for scholars and practitioners of business and management, social policy/sociology and economics.

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• Acknowledgements(p. viii)
• Executive Summary(p. ix)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 The Audit Environment(p. 7)
• Auditing and Accounting and Audit Firms(p. 7)
• Audit Engagements(p. 13)
• Audit or Assurance Services?(p. 15)
• Contingency and Accountability(p. 16)
• 3 The Research Studies: Issues of Methodology and Generalisability(p. 19)
• The Nature of the Research(p. 19)
• Issues of Measurement and Methodology(p. 25)
• The Transferability of the Results of US Studies(p. 29)
• Accountants or Auditors?(p. 32)
• 4 Research Findings(p. 39)
• Introduction(p. 39)
• 4.1 Personality and Needs(p. 40)
• Personality(p. 40)
• Needs(p. 45)
• Summary(p. 48)
• 4.2 Stress(p. 48)
• Environmental and Organizational Factors(p. 49)
• Individual Factors(p. 52)
• Job-Related Tension(p. 53)
• Summary(p. 54)
• 4.3 Socialisation and Feedback(p. 55)
• Summary(p. 58)
• 4.4 Career Development(p. 59)
• Summary(p. 63)
• 4.5 Leadership and Mentoring(p. 64)
• Leadership(p. 64)
• Mentoring(p. 69)
• Summary(p. 73)
• 4.6 Job Satisfaction(p. 74)
• Summary(p. 77)
• 4.7 Professional and Organizational Commitment(p. 77)
• Professional Commitment(p. 78)
• Organizational Commitment(p. 79)
• Compatibility of Professional and Organizational Commitment(p. 82)
• Summary(p. 84)
• 4.8 Staff Turnover(p. 84)
• Summary(p. 91)
• 4.9 Performance Appraisal(p. 92)
• Summary(p. 98)
• 4.10 Determinants of Job Performance(p. 99)
• Job Performance Models(p. 99)
• Attribution Theory(p. 105)
• Summary(p. 108)
• 5 Conclusions(p. 111)
• Career Development(p. 111)
• Personal Attitudes and Characteristics(p. 111)
• Education and Examinations(p. 112)
• Acculturation and Socialisation(p. 113)
• Staffing Patterns(p. 114)
• The Multi-Disciplinary Global Firm(p. 116)
• Management Structure and Practice(p. 118)
• The Value of Research(p. 119)
• Appendix(p. 123)
• Bibliography(p. 133)