About the authors

Professor Rowley: Dr Rowley, BA, MA (Warwick), DPhil (Nuffield College, Oxford) is the founding Director of the Centre for Research on Asian Management and Research Professor at Cass Business School, City University, London, UK. He has acted as an advisor to the HEAD Foundation, Singapore and is its Director of Research and Publications, helping to establish its Think Tank. He is Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review, Book Series Editor of both Working in Asia and Asian Studies and serves on many Editorial Boards. He is well known and highly regarded in the area, with visiting appointments at leading Asian universities and Editorial Boards in the UK, Asia and the US. He has given various talks and lectures at universities, companies and organisations internationally with research and consultancy experience with unions, and business and government; his previous employment includes varied work in both the public and private sectors. Professor Rowley has published widely and researches on a range of areas including international and comparative human resource management and Asia Pacific management and business, with over 400 articles, books and chapters and other contributions in practitioner outlets as well as knowledge transfer engagement and international radio and newspaper interviews.

Ms. Jayantee Mukherjee Saha is the Director and Principal Consultant of Aei4eiA, a Sydney-based management research and consultancy firm, and professional member of Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI). Prior to this, she worked as Principal Researcher at SHRI where she was responsible for leading strategic projects on pertinent human resources issues to provide solutions to stakeholders. She has extensive experience in the field of management and human resources and worked closely with Government/public sector agencies, MNCs/SMEs, global bodies, academia/professional firms in the region and beyond. She regularly writes and speaks at various forums and has over 37 publications and written a book on Management and Organizational Behaviour.

Mr. David Ang is the Executive Director at SHRI. He has extensive experience in the field of human resources and business. David was the former Secretary General and Treasurer of the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations (WFPMA) – an umbrella group that holds together human resource associations from regions across the world from May 2006 to April 2008. His leadership role as the former Chair of the 11th World HR Congress & Business-Connect Exposition won him worldwide accolades for successful execution of the largest HR event in the Asia Pacific region. David is an editorial member of the international peer refereed journal, Research and Practice in Human Resource Management (RPHRM)