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"The second edition of The Ethical Business has been updated with new chapters focusing on the symbiotic relationship between business and the environment. New case studies have been developed to increase the practical application of ethical themes within the workplace. A critical analysis of contemporary issues in business ethics"--

Highlights the opinion that the importance of national culture in cross‐cultural management is diminishing, suggesting that the world is moving towards a single, global management culture that is basically Western and, more specifically, American. Attempts to test this hypothesis by examining values held by future managers from five different cultures. Uses the Kruskal‐Wallis One Way ANOVA and the Mann‐Whitney tests to show that future managers from different cultural backgrounds will neigher adopt a mirror image of current management style in their cultures nor a global unified management style regardless of local culture.

Introduction : managing human resources in the Middle East / Pawan S. Budhwar and Kamel Mellahi -- Human resource management in Iran / Pari Namazie and Monir Tayeb -- Human resource management in Oman / Abdul Basit Al-Hamadi and Pawan S. Budhwar -- Human resource management in the United Arab Emirates / Abubakr Mohyeldin Tahir Suliman -- Human resource management in Kuwait / Abbas J. Ali and Ali Al-Kazemi -- Human resource management in Saudi Arabia / Kamel Mellahi -- Human resource management in Qatar / Ikhlas Abdalla -- Human resource management in Jordan / Mohamed Branine and Farhad Analoui -- Human resource management in Turkey / Zeynep Aycan -- Human resource management in Israel / Yehuda Baruch, Ilan Meshoulam and Shay Tzafrir -- Human resource management in Egypt / Tarek Hatem -- Human resource management in Sudan / Allam Ahmed -- Human resource management in Tunisia / Dorra Yahiaoui and Yahia H. Zoubir -- Human resource management in Algeria / Mohamed Branine -- Human resource management in Morocco / Philip G. Benson and Khadija Al Arkoubi -- Human resource management in the Middle East : emerging HRM models and future challenges for research and policy / Kamel Mellahi and Pawan S. Budhwar

Research on recruitment has neglected the possible influence of political instability and civil wars. This article seeks to redress this gap, by providing insights into recruitment and selection criteria in African countries during a time of political instability, based on the case of Algeria. The research focuses on how small businesses in highly unstable political environments vet candidates, the recruitment channels they use, and the type of criteria small businesses use during the recruitment process. Through interviews with 14 managers of small and medium sized enterprises, data were collected on recruitment and selection criteria of 144 employees. It was found that a tradition of basing recruitment on extended family networks has mutated into narrower and more confining networks based on trust.

A growing body of research examines whether and how corporate social responsibility (CSR) leads to positive employee attitudes and work behaviors. While previous research suggests that CSR improves employee loyalty, motivation, satisfaction, and commitment, little research examines how CSR affects employee creativity. In addition, considerable skepticism remains regarding the significance of CSR in relation to employee attitudes and behaviors and of the potential contingencies that intervene in these relationships. In this study, we argue that the impact of CSR on employee creativity is contingent upon a focal firm's corporate ability (CA), that is, its expertise in producing and delivering its products/services. Specifically, we argue that CA not only influences employee organizational identification, hence employee creativity, but also affects how employees react to CSR. We test our arguments within a sample of professional workers in the telecommunication sector in Spain and find strong support for the proposed model.