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Jobs and organisations
Cambré, Bart; Kippers, Evelien; van Veldhoven, Marc; … - In: Personnel Review 41 (2012) 2, pp. 200-215
Purpose – This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of group level differences in job satisfaction. Specifically, the authors seek to understand the shared variance in job satisfaction at the group level of jobs within organisations, in a particular industrial sector. To explain...
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A review of the time management literature
Claessens, Brigitte J.C.; van Eerde, Wendelien; Rutte, … - In: Personnel Review 36 (2007) 2, pp. 255-276
performance is not clear. Time management training seems to enhance time management skills, but this does not automatically …
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Learning processes and job satisfaction in the Spanish wine sector
Gil, Alfonso J.; Mataveli, Mara - In: Personnel Review 46 (2017) 3, pp. 624-643
) and training processes – and job satisfaction (JS), by taking into consideration the mediating role of organizational size …
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Investors in People in small firms
Ram, Monder - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 1, pp. 69-91
Investors in People (IIP), the heavily promoted government initiative to enhance organisations’ training and … workplace relations. The IIP agenda of formalising training and development does not appear to sit easily with these processes …; and appears to neglect the significance of informal training. Moreover, the requirements go against the grain of the …
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Senior managers’ perceptions of the competencies they require for effective performance: implications for training and development
Hayes, John; Rose‐Quirie, Alison; Allinson, Christopher W. - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 1, pp. 92-105
This study investigates whether there is a set of universal senior management competencies in the context of one large multi‐site service organisation. Four distinct work environments are identified and different lists of competencies are perceived to be important by managers working at the...
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“Winners” training and its troubles
Stein, Mark - In: Personnel Review 29 (2000) 4, pp. 445-459
The concept of “winners” has become a popular motif in the design of training programmes, especially in the area of … customer service. This paper examines the case of one such training programme at “CapitalAirport”, with the purpose of …
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A review of transfer of training studies in the past decade
Cheng, Eddie W.L.; Ho, Danny C.K. - In: Personnel Review 30 (2001) 1, pp. 102-118
employees learned from training programmes back to their jobs. A conceptual framework is developed for this article to better … highlights that some individual, motivational and environmental factors are related to transfer of training. Second, some … outcomes. Some new individual (e.g. achievement striving), motivational (e.g. trainee‐control‐over‐training) and environmental …
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IIP and SMEs: awareness, benefits and barriers
Smith, Alison Jane; Boocock, Grahame; Loan‐Clarke, John; … - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 1, pp. 62-85
) in the Midlands. The paper describes IIP, then considers the significance of SMEs and the impact of training and … Training and Enterprise Councils in promoting IIP to SMEs also comes under scrutiny, and our study has lessons for the …
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An examination of the accuracy of slogans related to assessment centres
Lievens, Filip - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 1, pp. 86-102
To diffuse new management fads or to promote existing management practices slogans are often used. In this study eight slogans regarding assessment centres were retrieved from brochures of consultancy agencies and were compared to empirical research. These slogans were that assessment centres...
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Strategic human resource management in western multinationals in China
Braun, Werner H.; Warner, Malcolm - In: Personnel Review 31 (2002) 5, pp. 553-579
In the past two decades, the way enterprises in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) manage their human resources has changed dramatically. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have entered into the “strategic investor” phase, where now the integration of PRC operations into the MNE network...
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