Purpose Many organizations hold the traditional view that due to the potential of higher job dissatisfaction and employee turnover rates, hiring overqualified job candidates is risky. The purpose of this paper is to take an alternative perspective, using human capital and resource-based theories...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to observe how the Euro Car Parts (ECP) academy is helping the expanding business to recruit trained and willing employees. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the reasons for the academy, the form it takes and the results it is achieving. Findings...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the advantages that two firms – Days Contract Hire and Keir Construction – gain from regularly taking on apprentices. Design/methodology/approach – Describes how the apprenticeship programs work at the two companies and the support that apprentices...

Purpose – Demonstrates how to build commitment and retain employees through a career-development strategy. Design/methodology/approach – Shows how organizations often mismanage career development and how they could do better. Findings – Describes the five “Ps” of poor career...

Purpose – This paper aims to observe that strong policies on employee engagement helped the UK and international payment-systems provider VocaLink to introduce organizational change smoothly and win Investors in People (IiP) gold for its human resource (HR) practices....