The ongoing financial and economic crisis (FEC) that started in 2007 already caused and still causes unprecedented damage for the economy worldwide. Its reasons and consequences illustrate the complex and dynamic environment in which companies act nowadays: Increasingly harmonized markets and...

What role can private voluntary regulation play in improving labor standards and working conditions in global supply chain factories? How does this system relate to and interact with other systems of labor regulation and work organization? This paper seeks to address these questions through a...

In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, wie Produktivitätsfortschritte in Organisationen durch die Verbesserung bestehender Organisationsstrukturen erzielt werden können. Ein Teil des Wissens über diese organisatorischen Verbesserungen erwerben Mitarbeiter auf lokaler Ebene durch die Ausführung...

This research investigates the new psychological contract phenomenon in an organisational case study. The research question underpinning this study is - What are the core attributes of the new employment relationship? To investigate this research question, the researcher applied Noer's (1997)...

Organizations are faced with competitive and changeable environments whichdemand more prepared employees to successfully cope with these current and futurechallenges (Oswick, Grant, Michelson, and Wailes, 2005). Organizations, as a way to copewith more hostile environments, may foster individual...