The economics of New Labour: policy and performance

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New Labour's economic policy developed from the Thatcherism that it followed and it has embraced neo-liberal economics and accepted the idea that government demand management will fail. Demand played a big role in economic growth, lower unemployment and job quality in the U.K. since 1997 despite New Labour's dismissal of its importance.

Government expenditures, Economic Programs, Administration of Economic Programs, Evaluation, Economic policy, Influence, Labour Party (United Kingdom), Demand (Economics), Report

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Organisational change, human resource management and innovative performance: comparative perspectives

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Three primary issues related to human resource management are examined. These include the extent of the diffusion of new management practices, the relation of organizational change to performance and the impact of the current restructuring on skills and the quality of work.

Business Personnel Management, Human resource management, Organizational change

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The adoption and diffusion of high performance management: lessons from Japanese multinationals in the West

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The management practices of multinational companies in Japan, the US and the UK are considered to study the possible impediments to high performing work practices.

Management, Employee performance

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