Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Frage, inwieweit Personalrecruiter das Internet nutzen, um den persoenlichen Hintergrund ihrer Bewerber auszuleuchten. Waehrend das Thema in den Tagesmedien ausfuehrlich eroertert wurde, beginnt die Forschung gerade erst, sich dafuer zu interessieren. Mit diesem...

This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

According to the Resource Based View of strategic management, analyzing the human resource of a specific firm in terms of its potential to serve as a source of a sustainable competitive advantage requires an examination of – among others – the resource value. The question of how to...

This special issue is dedicated to examining some current issues in international HRM; it contributes mainly to the field of HRM in the multinational enterprise. However, it clearly also draws on knowledge from cross-cultural IHRM. The guest editors have identified three topics that have gained...

In diesem Beitrag wird analysiert, welche Strategien zur Bindung der Ressourcen von Fach- und Fuehrungskraeften, d.h. ihrer fuer den Unternehmenserfolg bedeutsamen Kompetenzen, in Unternehmen als geeignet beurteilt und welche tatsaechlich umgesetzt werden. Auf der Basis der...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden individuelle Vorstellungen von Karriere und karrierebezogenem Handeln analysiert und typisiert. Angeknuepft wird an die Diskussion, inwiefern „Einheitsmodelle“ von Karriere ausgedient bzw. jemals umfassende Gueltigkeit besessen haben. Im Zuge der...

Current issues in international human resource management include global careers that differ from traditional expatriate assignments. A number of foreign executives have in recent years been appointed to positions in the headquarter operations of culturally distant organisations. These...

Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives....

Professionals, like business consultants, have been described as crucial for modern knowledge-intensive organizations, but they are not always thought to be easy to manage or to attract. This might be due to a need for autonomy and commitment that is aimed more at the profession than at their...

Juergen Weibler: Career Expectations – In a Constant State of Flux? / Wolfgang Mayrhofer: Falling for the Change Hype – or: (Career, HR, and OB) Research Should Know Better / Ronald Hartz: ‘Everything must change in order to stay the same’ / Frank Schabel : Managers’ Career...