Europe is getting older – a simple observation with far-reaching implications. The challenges posed by an aging society are tremendous. As the baby boom generation grows older, it is doubtful that ever-longer retirement will continue to be beneficial and affordable for individuals or the...

Human resource management is developing today like digital technologies, almost in real time. A multidisciplinary field by excellence, human resource management has moved from Taylor’s principles of scientific management where people were considered labelling employees, to personal, human...

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...

Обобщены основные элементы и проблемы системы стратегического управления персоналом банковских учреждений. Предложены направления совершенствования системы...

This paper presents the most representative approaches to concepts of human resources, human resource management and strategic human resource management in the last two decades, based on purely theoretical analysis of the concepts mentioned above. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate...

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

The increased promotion of energy production from biomass on European and national level leads to land use conflicts on regional and local level. These conflicts appear usually in the legal planning processes during the construction of biogas plants. Whereas the steering possibilities for...