How do culture-based values affect the efficiency of IHRM practices?. An approach to the limited transferability of IHRM practices such as training and development within an intercultural perspective.

It depicts life-sized re-creations of a male and a female walking side by side across the ancient African plain. They are hairy and chimplike in dimensions, but have a bearing and gait that suggest humanness. The most striking feature of the display is that the male holds his left arm protectively around the femaleБЂ™s shoulder. It is a tender and affecting gesture, suggestive of close bonding. The tableau is done with such conviction that it is easy to overlook the consideration that virtually everything above the footprints is imaginary. Almost every external aspect of the two figures-degree of hairiness, facial appendages (whether they had human noses or chimp noses), expressions, skin color, size and shape of the femaleБЂ™s breasts-is necessarily suppositional. We canБЂ™t even say that they were a couple. The female figure may in fact have been a child. Nor can we be certain that they were australopithecines. They are assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I had been told that they were posed like that because during the building of the diorama the female figure kept toppling over, but Ian Tattersall insists with a laugh that the story is untrue ...»