(OB) and Human Resource Management (HRM) in the Department of Management at King’s College London. His research … interests include the study of the impact of HRM on organisational performance and employee well-being, the transformation of … macro-micro-macro relationships in OB and HRM. Within this perspective, together with colleagues from King’s, Birkbeck …

In this paper the focus is on how organizations select, adapt and retain best practices in HRM. Based on recent … retention process. In this way we are able to construct the life cycle of a HRM best practice, the way in which companies differ … practices in the field of HRM, a range of hypotheses is presented to be tested for in follow-up research. …

The relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm performance has been a hotly debated topic over the … industry i.e. Health care, Local Government and Tourism. Empirical results suggest that the effect of HRM is lower in highly …

the UK than the more institutionalised environment of the Netherlands. Buy-outs raised HRM practices in the UK to a level …

: good leadership gives enthusiastic and motivated employees, which gives satisfied customers and delivers good business …

Leadership implies power. We argue, from a social embodiment perspective, that thinking about power involves mental … positioning of a leader’s box in an organization chart and of a leader picture into a team picture. Implications for leadership …

Research on work values shows that respectful leadership is highly desired by employees. On the applied side, however …, the extant research does not offer many insights as to which concrete leadership behaviours are perceived by employees as … indications of respectful leadership. Thus, to offer such insights, we collected and content analyzed employees’ narrations of …

then integrate the notion of Implicit Leadership and Followership Theories (ILTs and IFTs) to argue that the currencies of …