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Cost-Cutting in New York and London, a Boom in India
After outsourcing much of their back-office work to India, banks are now exporting data-intensive jobs from higher up the food chain

In India, Parents Become Part of the Hiring Picture
In a culture where twenty-somethings often live with their parents and seek their blessing on major life decisions, family outreach has become a critical recruiting and retention tool

Debt Collection Done From India Appeals to U.S. Agencies
"India will be the only place we grow this year," collectors in India are "very polite, very respectful, and they don`t raise their voice." He added, "People respond to that."

Japan's establishment continues to rebuff foreign activist investors
Business Week

The Right Perks
Global hiring means getting a handle on how different cultures view salaries, taxes, and benefits
snapshots of pay and perks in 10 countries, including benefits ranging from company-owned ski chalets in France to bodyguards and bulletproof cars for top executives in Brazil

People Movers
Dispatching workers around the globe is more than HR can handle. So a new industry has sprung up
One of the thorniest tasks of managing a global workforce involves logistics: ensuring that the right employees are in the right place at the right time. But as governments get tougher on immigration, it's harder than ever to move people where they're needed.

Young and Impatient in India
Workers raised in an age of economic optimism want it all, and they want it now
India is becoming a proving ground for managing the global workforce, with companies developing new schemes to keep the younger generation engaged.

India's commercial capital
Maximum city blues...
Mumbai, is the one Indian city with pretensions as an international financial hub. So state and central governments have made vast promises. The plans envisage overhauling laws and regulations and building Mumbai's infrastructure anew.

SAP's Plan to Globalize Hits Cultural Barriers
Software Giant's Shift Irks German Engineers; U.S. Star Quits Effort
The resulting tensions show how the challenge of globalization goes far beyond navigating different languages and time zones.

Do not neglect culture
six of the seven cases of nation-building initiated in the last decade by the United States were in Islamic countries, we do not learn much of the lessons of this extraordinary experience.

What`s So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing
but most laughter has little to do with humor. It`s an instinctual survival tool for social animals, not an intellectual response to wit. It`s not about getting the joke. It`s about getting along.

A Profile of Manpower
To see how the nature of work is changing around the world, look at the evolving strategy of a global employment provider
That has led Manpower to alter its strategy to try to profit from dramatic changes under way in the world's labour markets. These include outsourcing, ageing populations and an increasingly severe shortage of talent, even in places like China.

Venturesome consumption
In praise of America's fearless consumers of new ideas and products
In the battle to invent and innovate, China and India, in particular, with their gazillion-strong cohorts of engineering and science graduates, will soon overwhelm the dullards and liberal arts students churned out by America's education system.

India. The long arms of the law
Resolving commercial disputes in India can take forever
[India] offers an above-average "soft" infrastructure of institutions and regulatory frameworks. In particular, its elaborate legal system is often cited as an advantage compared with, say, China's state-controlled courts.