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...

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...

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...

This paper discusses the theory and evidence behind the logic of business process outsourcing, with a specific focus on human resource outsourcing (HRO). Market analysts project rapid growth in the global market for HRO, from around $30 billion in 2005 to just over $40 billion in 2008. The paper...

The role of human resource management practices in promoting the performance of firms is widely debated. Yet much of the debate has reached an impasse, with uncertain results as to which practices in fact work and why. It has, moreover, rarely gone beyond the context of large firms. This paper...

Die Verfasser entwerfen in dem vorliegenden Artikel ein ressourcenorientiertes Konzept, das Unternehmen zur Fundierung von Diversifikationsentscheidungen und als Hilfsmittel für die Suche nach profitablen Wachstumsoptionen aus bereits vorhandenen starken Ressourcen dienen soll. Dazu wird ein...