Abstract The examination of the behavioural responses of the reciprocal first name exchange as a policy in firms in Nigeria was the main objective of this research. It was also the intent of this empirical work to highlight the challenges and issues of the transferability and applicability of...

Detailliert wird ein ganzheitliches Konzept für das Diversity Management erschlossen. Dabei wird die Relevanz des Unternehmensleitbildes, der Führung, der Kommunikation und des Organisationsklimas für eine diversity-gerechte Unternehmenskultur gezeigt und die Bedeutung für zwei...

Purpose – To test the hypothesis of increased specialisation during the 1980s in the aggregate pattern of intercorporate ownership in the Canadian economy.Design/methodology/approach – The network of ownership between enterprises and subsidiaries is characterised for the period 1976-1995...

Increasing levels of cultural diversity in the workforce poses one of the most challenging human resource and organisational issues of our time. Increased workforce diversity means that organisations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, race and ethnicity. Such diverse people...

Scholars suggest that organizational diversity management (DM) programs are useful not only to satisfy legal requirements or social demands, but also to further the achievement of business objectives. However, much is still to be learned about the effects of such programs on individuals'...

Personalmanagement in multinationalen und multikulturellen Organisationen: Diversity Management in der Europ??ischen UnionIn der Arbeit wird untersucht, wie die EU mit Diversit??t umgeht, wie sich entsprechende Ma??nahmen in der Personalpolitik der verschiedenen europ??ischen Beh??rden...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

The integration of philanthropy into corporate advertising and sales promotion campaigns is becoming a popular persuasion tactic. Companies are now using product advertising to portray themselves as benefactors of charities and social causes. The underlying marketing premise is that a firm can...

Relationship marketing is emerging as a major theme in the marketing literature. Its central focus is the establishment, development, and maintenance of relationships between exchange partners (Morgan and Hunt 1994). The relationship definition of marketing states that the goal of "marketing is...

This study examines the time perspective (TP) and intertemporal choice biases that exist among professional financial advisors, and the extent to which those biases impact their decision making. Certified Financial Planners (CFP® ) from various types of firms (accounting, insurance, securities,...