There is no doubt that innovation is nowadays the main determinant ofeconomic growth and that the human resource is as a crucial factor of the process ofinnovation.As the role played by this factor the mainstream viewpoint emphasizes labourmarket rigidities in the explanation of cross-countries...

Owing to changes in the business environment, there has been a tremendous adoption of innovativeworkplace organisation (WO) and human resource (HR) practices during the last fewdecades. Assuming a holistic perspective on human resource management (HRM), the presentstudy establishes the...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht mit repräsentativen Daten für Deutschland die Auswirkungen moderner Arbeitsorganisation, die durch Autonomie und Aufgabenvielfalt der Arbeitsstelle kennzeichnet ist, auf die Arbeitszufriedenheit. Die empirische Untersuchung basiert auf dem ökonomischen Ansatz...

Confronted with an ongoing trend towards European integration and a variety of different national Human Resource Management (HRM) approaches, multinational organisations operating in Europe face the task of determining an optimal and flexible degree of standardisation for their European HRM...

"In offenen wie internen Führungsseminaren wird dem Thema 'Mitarbeiter-Gespräch' ein ganz offensichtliches Interesse entgegengebracht. Was ist daraus zu schließen? Dass diese Aussprache zwischen Vorgesetztem und Mitarbeiter zu unregelmäßig, zu selten oder gar nicht stattfindet?(...)

Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Übertragung personal-wirtschaftlicher Praktiken des privaten Sektors auf öffentliche Verwaltungen.Ausgehend von dem Ansatz eines New Public Management implizieren die Annahmen des Managerialismus, erfolgreiche personal-wirtschaftliche Instrumente der...

The functionality of organizational routines, i.e. the factual value for accomplishing theirpurposes, is an important constraint on the capabilities an organization can bring to bear on itsoperations. Often falling short of its potential, the actual make-up of organizational routinesinvites...

T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economicenvironments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skillsto adapt resource allocations to those shocks were most in need. We hypothesize that variationin returns to human capital...

There is no doubt that management practices are linked to the productivity and performance of a company. However, research findings are mixed. This paper provides a multi-disciplinary review of the current evidence of such a relationship and offers suggestions for further exploration...