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Raghu Raman, S.; Budhwar, Pawan; Balasubramanian, G. - In: Employee Relations 29 (2007) 6, pp. 696-710

Purpose – The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in India is evolving rapidly, and one of the key … characteristics of this industry is the emergence of high‐end services offered by knowledge processing outsourcing (KPO) organizations … KPO, HRM and India and has key messages for policy makers. Originality/value – The literature on outsourcing has in …

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Outsourcing and financial crisis: evidence from Icelandic service SMEs

Edvardsson, Ingi Rúnar; Teitsdóttir, Unnur Dilja - In: Employee Relations 37 (2015) 1, pp. 30-47

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the application of outsourcing within Icelandic service companies in … 2009 (381 answers) and in the summer of 2013 (212 answers). Findings – In general outsourcing did not increase, but most … SMEs had extended their outsourcing in almost every area of operation, such as human resource management (HRM), IT and …

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HRM, Employee Relations And The Labour Market

Gunnigle, Patrick - 2002

The transition from school to work: a European perspectiveIn general, a person's employment and educational biographies do not alwaysrun smoothly and in only one direction. Interruptions often occur, or theindividual may begin to move in different or new directions

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Contract labour mobilisation in Chile's copper mining and forestry sectors

Durán‐Palma, Fernando; López, Diego - In: Employee Relations 31 (2009) 3, pp. 245-263

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of recent developments in employment relations in Chile, focusing on recent episodes of contract labour mobilisation in the forestry and copper mining sectors. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a consolidation...

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Outsourcing of employers' responsibilities in the false name of flexibility

Sheikh, Abdullah Z. - In: Employee Relations 32 (2010) 5, pp. 495-508

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to report on an in‐depth study of “pay‐rolling” agencies. Pay‐rolling agencies are a particular form of employment intermediaries through which employers attempt to bypass statutory obligations concerning workers' benefit entitlements and trade...

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Southern Insurgency – The Coming of the Global Working Class

Klikauer, Thomas - In: Employee Relations 39 (2017) 4, pp. 582-590

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Public sector outsourcing: implications for training and skills

Lafferty, George; Roan, Amanda - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 1, pp. 76-85

Since the early 1980s, governments and policy makers in Australia have emphasized the importance of the national skills base to the attainment of international competitiveness. Workforce training programs and institutions have undergone considerable restructuring as a consequence. In recent...

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HRM in UK hotels: a focus on commitment

McGunnigle, Peter J.; Jameson, Stephanie M. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 403-422

Explores human resource management (HRM) and the established relationships between HRM, the management of “commitment cultures”, the recruitment and selection procedures, and the training and development practices considered necessary to develop employee commitment. The literature suggests...

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Benchmarking HRM and the benchmarking of benchmarking

Rodwell, John J.; Lam, Jeremy; Fastenau, Maureen - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 4, pp. 356-374

Organisations with low absenteeism and low turnover can be distinguished from organisations with high absenteeism and turnover through the identification and implementation of sophisticated and strategic best practices such as benchmarking relative cost position, developing a corporate ethic,...

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What shapes HRM? A multivariate examination

Bin Othman, Rozhan; Poon, June M.L. - In: Employee Relations 22 (2000) 5, pp. 467-480

The link between business strategy and human resource management (HRM) practices has received considerable attention from researchers. It is generally believed that integrating strategy and HRM will result in positive organizational outcomes. The empirical evidence for the strategy‐HRM...

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