Management can be thought of as a function that is part of an organisation’s formal structure. This is evident in Mullins’s (2005, p. 190) statement that he regards management as: taking place within a structured organisational setting and with prescribed roles; directed towards the attainment of aims and objectives; achieved through the efforts of other people; and using systems and procedures. He also goes on to say: It is through the process of management that the efforts of members of the organisation are co-ordinated, directed and guided towards the achievement of organisational goals. Management is therefore the cornerstone of organisational effectiveness, and is concerned with arrangements for the carrying out of organisational processes and execution of work. This definition draws on the idea that management is a particular function, which is embedded in the organisational structure and involves a number of different kinds of activities that are associated with each other.Businesses throughout the world have always been in an ongoing struggle with the need to locate and retain the right human resource, in addition to ensuring that this resource is in the right place at the right time Drummond, H., & EBSCO Publishing. (2004). For a long time the business world, particularly in relation to human resource, has been exceptionally competitive, however recent trends (such as globalization) "The capitalist world-economy has no single political center it has been able to flourish precisely because [it] has had within its bounds not one but a multiplicity of political systems, which has given capitalists a freedom of maneuver that is structurally based and has made possible the constant expansion of the world-system" (1974: p348). This has vastly increased the requirements for resource to be sourced on a global scale as the work environments question numerous corporate ethics and business practices, specifically benefit packages, localization of Human Resource...