Human resources are considered the most important component of a corporation's competitive advantage in global markets. Society, workers and shareholders expect corporations to manage and utilise human resources not only for the competitive advantage of a corporation but of a nation. Corporations are expected to disclose information relating to the management of human resources in their annual reports. This study analysed the annual reports of a sample of publicly traded corporations in six countries (USA, Canada, Germany, UK, Japan, and S. Korea) for the purpose of an international comparison of human resource information disclosure. Results of the analysis revealed that corporations in different countries differed in the disclosure of human resources information. In particular, those in Europe disclosed more human resources information than those in Asia and North America. The corporations in the financial services sector, which employed over two thirds of the workforce in the developed countries were also different from those in the manufacturing sector in disclosure of human resources information. The details of the differences between the two sectors, and among the six nations of the three continents, in terms of the incidence (frequency) and the word count (content) of information disclosed on different hitman resources issues in the annual reports are presented in the paper.

The subject of conflict and the methods of conflict resolution are of central importance to collective bargaining. The major concern of policy makers and of negotiators in public sector labor relations, in particular, is to find a method of conflict resolution which not only would avoid work stoppages but also would be compatible with free collective bargaining. Binding interest arbitration is suggested as the method of conflict resolution which would accomplish both the purposes. Four systems of binding interest arbitration-namely, the final-offer-selection, last-offer-by-issue, open-award, and compromise—award—are being experimented with in several negotiation situations Some labor relations practitioners have expressed experiences in contradiction with the theoretical expectations of the impact of these four systems of binding interest arbitration on negotiation process and outcome This experimental study confirms the theoretical expectations, particularly of the final-offer-selection and last-offer-by-issue systems. The former system generates genuine negotiations, while the latter subverts collective bargaining.The subject of conflict is of central importance to collective bargaining, and the conflict situations between labor and management are of great concern to practitioners and researchers. A conflict situation refers to the pursuit of incompatible, or at least seemingly incompatible,

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