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Managing People and Organisations in Africa

Kamoche, Ken - 2015

Management and organisation literature often characterises managing in Africa as 'the challenge of' and rarely do scholars look to the continent for novel ideas, inspiration, best practice, or theoretical insights. Yet, in the last five years or so, the African organisational landscape has...

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The diffusion of human‐resource information‐technology innovations in US and non‐US firms

Florkowski, Gary W.; Olivas‐Luján, Miguel R. - In: Personnel Review 35 (2006) 6, pp. 684-710

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the diffusion patterns of eight information technologies that are transforming HR service‐delivery in North America and Europe: HR functional applications, integrated HR suites, IVR systems, HR intranets, employee and manager self‐service...

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Enhancing Chinese SME performance through innovative HR practices

Zheng, Connie; O'Neill, Grant; Morrison, Mark - In: Personnel Review 38 (2009) 2, pp. 175-194

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how understanding of human resource (HR) management practices which have been adopted in the emerging markets such as that in China is particularly interesting to academia and management practitioners. The purpose of this study is to shed some...

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Framing the implementation of HRM innovation

Bondarouk, Tanya; Kees Looise, Jan; Lempsink, Bart - In: Personnel Review 38 (2009) 5, pp. 472-491

frame domains, and to explore their role in implementing HRM innovation. HRM innovation implementation is considered through … of HRM innovation by targeted employees. Design/methodology/approach – An explorative case study in a construction … interview transcripts. Findings – Four HRM frame domains are identified: strategic motivation, essence of HRM innovation, HRM …

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Creating a Learning Organisation

Easterby‐Smith, Mark - In: Personnel Review 19 (1990) 5, pp. 24-28

This article, arguing that a key feature in the success of Japanese companies is their ability to learn rapidly from their experiences, reviews some of the more important contributions to the theory of organisational learning. Additionally the author considers, from a practical point of view,...

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R&D – Personnel Management by Incentive Management: Results of an Empirical Survey in Research & Development

Mühlemeyer, Peter - In: Personnel Review 21 (1992) 4, pp. 27-36

instruments for internal innovation management. Uses the knowledge of experience of individuals taking an active part in … innovation for the formulation of such proposals. The necessity for the implementation of integrated incentive systems, which …

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“International” human resource management

Ozbilgin, Mustafa - In: Personnel Review 33 (2004) 2, pp. 205-221

Despite over 20 years of academic hype, international human resource management (IHRM) literature has been only partly successful in its original claim to offer a universal panacea for complexities of managing people that can transcend national, cultural and economic divides. This paper provides...

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Absence and return to work: towards a research agenda

Cunningham, Ian; James, Philip - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 1, pp. 33-47

Notes that the present human resource literature on absence pays relatively little attention to the management of genuine injury and illness. Seeks to partially address this lacuna in the literature through the findings of an exploratory study of the arrangements used to facilitate the return to...

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Pouring the coffee at interviews?

Lupton, Ben - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 1, pp. 48-64

Examines the role of the personnel function in the selection of doctors. Reveals a “clerk of works” role, marginal to the decision‐making process. Considers the implications of such a role for effective and fair selection practice. Develops a model of “weak” personnel management which...

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Evaluating levels of strategic integration and devolvement of human resource management in the UK

Budhwar, Pawan S. - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 2, pp. 141-157

Evaluates the levels of strategic “integration” of human resource management (HRM) into the corporate strategy and “devolvement” of responsibility for HRM to line managers in the UK manufacturing sector. Summarises, initially, some of the primary theoretical debates existing in the HRM...

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