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... UK managing director, Neil Holloway. (Times online, 2004) According to research conducted by Business Times Online (March2004), Microsoft UK is among the top 20 companies in HR management in UK and 88% of the employees are proud to be the part of the company. The company's turnover in the last financial year was £17.54bn and has a workforce of 1637 people with a male: female ratio of 74:26. Most of the staff members are below 35 years of age and the annual staff turnover rate is merely 1% (times online, 2004). The company had its market value of 3000% which is more than its book value because of intellectual capital of its people.( anonymous, 2004). Microsoft's Human Resource Practices Microsoft one of the world's most valuable company, attributed its outstanding performance to one capability: 'its ability to recruit, develop, motivate, and retain capable people' as Bill Gates like to boast. (Harvard business review, 2001). In 2000, ...