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Availability and use of work-life benefits: what’s in between?
Pasamar, Susana - In: Personnel Review 44 (2015) 6, pp. 949-969
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the availability and the real use of work-life (WL) benefits by employees. Most research focuses on adoption, and some studies have analysed the levels of use. However, it is yet to be explained why some firms offer...
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Australian Muslim men balancing work, family and religion:a positive look at a negative issue
Sav, Adem; Harris, Neil; Sebar, Bernadette - In: Personnel Review 43 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18
Purpose – This study explores how Australian Muslim men cope with potential conflict and achieve feelings of balance between their work, family and religious roles. Design/methodology/approach – The study is guided by the interpretive paradigm and is qualitative. Data is collected from...
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What happened to the border? The role of mobile information technology devices on employees’ work-life balance
Adisa, Toyin Ajibade; Gbadamosi, Gbolahan; Osabutey, … - In: Personnel Review 46 (2017) 8, pp. 1651-1671
Purpose Mobile information technology devices (MITDs) are of special interest for researchers who seek to understand the role of these devices on employees’ work-life balance (WLB). The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of MITDs on employees’ WLB. Design/methodology/approach This...
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HRM – The Reinvention of Modern Management?
Clark, Ian - In: Personnel Review 23 (1994) 5, pp. 15-24
” employees and line managers to square the circle of increased competition, improved efficiency/productivity and financial …
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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 impact of organizational culture on competitiveness, effectiveness and efficiency in Spanish-Moroccan international joint ventures
Gómez-Miranda, M.Elena; Pérez-López, M.Carmen; … - In: Personnel Review 44 (2015) 3, pp. 364-387
, effectiveness and efficiency. Design/methodology/approach – The survey conducted for this study was addressed to Spanish … small- to medium-sized firms, the present study shows that levels of competitiveness, effectiveness and/or efficiency in …, effectiveness and efficiency achieved. Originality/value – The value provided by this research lies in the sample examined, in its …
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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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