Purpose – To examine how an external performance review process introduced as part of the public sector modernisation agenda in England and Wales has impacted on HR service provision and processes in local government and the extent to which it has acted as a catalyst for the development of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between high‐involvement human resource management practices and organizational performance in the Sultanate of Oman, an Arabian Gulf country. Design/methodology/approach – Companies listed in the Muscat Securities Market in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship among emotional intelligence (EI), perceived transformational leadership (TFL) and work performance. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from a military-based research and development institution. In all, 202...

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...

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...