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The impact of HR practices, HR effectiveness and a 'strong HR system' on organisational outcomes: a stakeholder perspective
Guest, D.; Conway, N. - 2011
This paper explores the general hypothesis that effectiveness of human resource (HR) practices will help to explain the well-documented association between human resource management and performance. This paper adopts a stakeholder perspective, hypothesising that the ratings of HR effectiveness...
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HR business partner competency models: re-contextualising effectiveness
Caldwell, Raymond - 2008
The rise of 'HR business partnering' over the last decade has led to an enormous growth in HR competency models. Competencies are believed to provide a mechanism for reinventing traditional HR roles and improving the effectiveness of HR professionals as business partners. But are they effective?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476319
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Organizational support, individual attributes, and the practice of career self-management behavior
Sturges, J.; Conway, Neil; Liefooghe, Andreas - 2010
interactive relationships between perceived organizational support (POS), leader—member exchange (LMX), gender, locus of control … LMX, are more closely related to externally oriented career self-management activities. POS moderates the relationship … and women are shown to act in different ways, depending on the level of POS that they receive, whereas POS encourages …
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Metrics: HRM's holy grail? a New Zealand case study
Tootell, B.; Blackler, M.; Toulson, P.; Dewe, P. - 2009
What gets measured in business is noticed and acted on. The importance of human resource management (HRM) to be noticed as a vital key to business success has been argued profusely by the HRM profession over the last three decades. While the importance of human resource (HR) measurement is not...
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Do consensus meetings undermine the validity of assessment centres?
Dewberry, Chris; Jordan, Deborah - 2006
In this study the effects of latent-informal processes operating in assessment centre consensus meetings is investigated with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Non-participative observation is carried out in several consensus meetings, and auditory recordings made in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476327
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Impact of Tangible or Intangible incentives on job satisfaction among workers
Ali, Syeda Ayat-e-Zainab; Afridi, Maryam; Shafi, Marrium; … - 2016
Incentives either tangible or intangible are the most important or convenient resources that became the basis of workers satisfaction with their jobs. The study attempts to explore the relationship between tangible or intangible incentives and job satisfaction among workers. To achieve the...
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Towards a new employment relationship model : merging changing needs and interests of organisation and individual
Baker, Timothy Bond - 2005
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438161
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Human resource development strategy in the provincial government of the Western Cape
Du Toit Goussard, Carien - 2008
This study focuses on the determinants for the development of a human resource strategyin the Provincial Government Western Cape (PGWC).The context is that a new regulatoryframework for human resource development in South Africa, namely the National HumanResource Development Strategy (NHRDS) was...
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ENVIRONMENTAL HOSTILITY, INDIVIDUAL LEARNING, AND INTRAPRENEURSHIP AS PREDICTORS OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING: A STUDY APPLIED TO TWO SELECTED MINING COMPANIES IN CHILE
Callahan, Jamie (contributor) - 2009
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...
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